The Democratization of International Institutions

The Democratization of International Institutions
Author: Lucio Levi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781857437041

""Discusses the dynamics of democratization affecting most international institutions. Provides a general theoretical assessment of the process of democratization of international organizations and integrates case studies from global, regional and inter-regional organizations"--Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.

Democratizing Global Politics

Democratizing Global Politics
Author: Rodger A. Payne
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791459270

Argues that international institutions are becoming increasingly democratized.

Organizing Democracy

Organizing Democracy
Author: Paul Poast
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780226543345

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democratic transitions and membership in international organizations, the mechanisms underlying the relationship remain unclear. With Organizing Democracy, Paul Poast and Johannes Urpelainen argue that leaders of transitional democracies often have to draw on the support of international organizations to provide the public goods and expertise needed to consolidate democratic rule. Looking at the Baltic states’ accession to NATO, Poast and Urpelainen provide a compelling and statistically rigorous account of the sorts of support transitional democracies draw from international institutions. They also show that, in many cases, the leaders of new democracies must actually create new international organizations to better serve their needs, since they may not qualify for help from existing ones.

Locating the Proper Authorities

Locating the Proper Authorities
Author: Daniel W. Drezner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780472112890

DIVExamines how international organizations are used as a means of bypassing domestic opposition to policy change /div

International Organizations and Democracy

International Organizations and Democracy
Author: Thomas D. Zweifel
Publisher: Swiss Consulting Group, Inc.
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2006
Genre: Democracy
ISBN: 1588263924

?Zweifel?s persuasive and highly relevant book is a significant contribution to the literature on IO governance.? ?Edward McMahon, University of VermontDo international organizations represent the interests of the global citizenry? Or are they merely vehicles for the agendas of powerful nations and special interests? Thomas Zweifel explores this increasingly contentious issue, deftly blending history, theory, and case studies.Zweifel?s analysis covers both regional organizations (e.g., the EU, NAFTA, NATO, the AU) and such global institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. With international organizations becoming perhaps the most appropriate?if not the only?forum for tackling myriad transnational challenges, his systematic study of how these organizations function is central to the study of both international relations and democracy in the 21st century.Thomas D. Zweifel, CEO of the Swiss Consulting Group, is also adjunct professor at Columbia University?s School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, he served as director of global operations for the Hunger Project.Contents: The Democratic Deficit of International Organizations. An Approach to Transnational Democracy. A Brief History of International Organization. The United Nations. The World Bank. The International Monetary Fund. The World Trade Organization. The European Union. From OAU to African Union. Other Regional Organizations: NAFTA, NATO, and ASEAN. Global Citizenship?

The Opening Up of International Organizations

The Opening Up of International Organizations
Author: Jonas Tallberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107435773

Once the exclusive preserve of member states, international organizations have become increasingly open in recent decades. Now virtually all international organizations at some level involve NGOs, business actors and scientific experts in policy-making. This book offers the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of this development. Combining statistical analysis and in-depth case studies, it maps and explains the openness of international organizations across issue areas, policy functions and world regions from 1950 to 2010. Addressing the question of where, how and why international organizations offer transnational actors access to global policy-making, this book has implications for critical issues in world politics. When do states share authority with private actors? What drives the design of international organizations? How do activists and businesses influence global politics? Is civil society involvement a solution to democratic deficits in global governance?

Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations

Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations
Author: Anastassia V. Obydenkova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198839049

This volume examines the subject of authoritarian regionalism, and is the first to systematically investigate the functioning and the impact of authoritarian regionalism as a new phenomenon as well as its implications for democratization world-wide.

Parliamentarization of International Governmental Organizations

Parliamentarization of International Governmental Organizations
Author: Aleksandra Chiniaeva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030713415

This book offers a general framework for a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the institutional rules of intergovernmental organizations that include parliamentary elements, and analyzes the role of various types of international parliamentary assemblies in the system of global governance, as well as insights into the process known as “parliamentarization of international organizations.” Firstly, it presents a case study of various types of international parliamentary assemblies, which is then used to analyze the law of particular international organizations that include parliamentary assemblies or relate to them. Secondly, the book compares two parliamentary assemblies of international organizations – the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – in terms of structure, powers, and relations with their IGOs. It also investigates the activities of assemblies and their cooperations for the purpose to explore the positive effects of the work of international parliamentary assemblies and their potential for having an impact at the national level. Lastly, the book analyzes the tangible and desirable powers of international assemblies by comparing examples of existing international parliamentary assemblies with the UN Parliamentary Assembly project. Based on that, the author compiles a list of essential requirements and principles for effective international parliamentary assemblies.

Governing Disorder

Governing Disorder
Author: Laura Zanotti
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2011-02-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0271072261

The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United Nations to reconceptualize the rationale and extent of its peacebuilding efforts, and in the 1990s, democracy and good governance became legitimizing concepts for an expansion of UN activities. The United Nations sought not only to democratize disorderly states but also to take responsibility for protecting people around the world from a range of dangers, including poverty, disease, natural disasters, and gross violations of human rights. National sovereignty came to be considered less an entitlement enforced by international law than a privilege based on states’ satisfactory performance of their perceived obligations. In Governing Disorder, Laura Zanotti combines her firsthand experience of UN peacebuilding operations with the insights of Michel Foucault to examine the genealogy of post–Cold War discourses promoting international security. Zanotti also maps the changes in legitimizing principles for intervention, explores the specific techniques of governance deployed in UN operations, and identifies the forms of resistance these operations encounter from local populations and the (often unintended) political consequences they produce. Case studies of UN interventions in Haiti and Croatia allow her to highlight the dynamics at play in the interactions between local societies and international peacekeepers.

A Possible World

A Possible World
Author: Heikki Patomaki
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781842774076

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