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Book Synopsis International Organization As Technocratic Utopia by : Jens Steffek
Download or read book International Organization As Technocratic Utopia written by Jens Steffek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development of the idea of 'technocratic internationalism': the promotion of the involvement of experts in the workings of international relations, especially in international organizations such as the United Nations and European Union.
Book Synopsis International Organization as Technocratic Utopia by : Jens Steffek
Download or read book International Organization as Technocratic Utopia written by Jens Steffek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As climate change and a pandemic pose enormous challenges to humankind, the concept of expert governance gains new traction. This book revisits the idea that scientists, bureaucrats, and lawyers, rather than politicians or diplomats, should manage international relations. It shows that this technocratic approach has been a persistent theme in writings about international relations, both academic and policy-oriented, since the 19th century. The technocratic tradition of international thought unfolded in four phases, which were closely related to domestic processes of modernization and rationalization. The pioneering phase lasted from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War. In these years, philosophers, law scholars, and early social scientists began to combine internationalism and ideals of expert governance. Between the two world wars, a utopian period followed that was marked by visions of technocratic international organizations that would have overcome the principle of territoriality. In the third phase, from the 1940s to the 1960s, technocracy became the dominant paradigm of international institution-building. That paradigm began to disintegrate from the 1970s onwards, but important elements remain until the present day. The specific promise of technocratic internationalism is its ability to transform violent and unpredictable international politics into orderly and competent public administration. Such ideas also had political clout. This book shows how they left their mark on the League of Nations, the functional branches of the United Nations system and the European integration project. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, and environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states to supranational institutions, subnational governments, and public-private networks. It brings together work that advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford
Book Synopsis The Experiences of International Organizations by : Jean d'Aspremont
Download or read book The Experiences of International Organizations written by Jean d'Aspremont and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book uses the idea of experience to investigate the various ways in which international organizations are understood by judges, legal practitioners, legal researchers, legal theorists, and thinkers of global governance.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations by : Vytautas Jankauskas
Download or read book The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations written by Vytautas Jankauskas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation has become a key tool in assessing the performance of international organizations, in fostering learning, and in demonstrating accountability. Within the United Nations (UN) system, thousands of evaluators and consultants produce hundreds of evaluation reports worth millions of dollars every year. But does evaluation really deliver on its promise of objective evidence and functional use? By unravelling the internal machinery of evaluation systems in international organizations, this book challenges the conventional understanding of evaluation as a value-free activity. Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard show how a seemingly neutral technocratic tool can serve as an instrument for power in global governance; they demonstrate and explain how deeply politics are entrenched in the interests of evaluation stakeholders, in the control and design of IO evaluation systems, and to a lesser extent also in the content of evaluation reports. The analysis draws on 120 research interviews with evaluators, member state representatives, and IO secretariat officials as well as on textual analysis of over 200 evaluation reports. The investigation covers 21 UN system organizations, including detailed case studies of the ILO, IMF, UNDP, UN WOMEN, IOM, UNHCR, FAO, WHO, and UNESCO. Shedding light on the (in-)effectiveness of evidence-based policymaking, the authors propose possible ways of better reconciling the observed evaluation politics with the need to gather reliable evidence that is used to improve the functioning of the United Nations. The answer to evaluation politics is not to abandon evaluation or isolate it from the stakeholders but to acknowledge surrounding political interests and design evaluation systems accordingly.
Book Synopsis Weaponising Evidence by : Margherita Melillo
Download or read book Weaponising Evidence written by Margherita Melillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaponising Evidence provides the first analysis of the history of the international law on tobacco control. By relying on a vast set of empirical sources, it analyses the negotiation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the tobacco control disputes lodged before the WTO and international investment tribunals (Philip Morris v Uruguay and Australia - Plain Packaging). The investigation focuses on two main threads: the instrumental use of international law in the warlike confrontation between the tobacco control advocates and the tobacco industry, and the use of evidence as a weapon in the conflict. The book unveils important lessons on the functioning of international organizations, the role of corporate actors and civil society organizations, and the importance and limits of science in law-making and litigation.
Download or read book IOM Unbound? written by Megan Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the obligations of the International Organization for Migration through contributions from experts in international law and international relations.
Book Synopsis Broken Solidarities by : Felix Anderl
Download or read book Broken Solidarities written by Felix Anderl and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of the social movement against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. The book observes international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.
Book Synopsis Between Reality and Utopia by : Jorge Graciarena
Download or read book Between Reality and Utopia written by Jorge Graciarena and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Utopia by : Ėduard I︠A︡kovlevich Batalov
Download or read book The American Utopia written by Ėduard I︠A︡kovlevich Batalov and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War Stars by : Howard Bruce Franklin
Download or read book War Stars written by Howard Bruce Franklin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking cultural analysis of the superweapon in American society, H. Bruce Franklin explores a pattern of thought that has beguiled Americans since the 18th century: the belief that miraculous new weapons will somehow end war and bring global triumph to American ideals. Franklin begins his analysis with Robert Fulton, who claimed that an Age of Reason--including an end to ignorance, poverty, and war--would be ushered in by his three "defensive" inventions: the submarine, the torpedo, and the steam warship. He then traces this seductive idea as it weaves through American cultural artifacts, such as the flood of "future war" novels appearing between 1880 and World War I, the animated Disney feature "Victory Through Air Power", and a 1940 novel in which America uses atomic bombs to win World War II and establish a Pax Americana along the lines of the 1946 Baruch Plan. In all, Franklin explores over two hundred movies, stories, and novels, rediscovering obscure works that directly influenced later decision-making and brilliantly reinterpreting such modern classics as Catch 22, Slaughterhouse Five, and Dr. Strangelove. More important, he shows how these cultural images shaped the imagination and public discourse responsible for the actual superweapons now looming over human destiny.
Book Synopsis International Encyclopedia of Business and Management: Accounting - Deconstruction analysis and management by : Malcolm Warner
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Business and Management: Accounting - Deconstruction analysis and management written by Malcolm Warner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Quarter Century of International Social Science by : International Social Science Council
Download or read book A Quarter Century of International Social Science written by International Social Science Council and published by New Delhi : Concept. This book was released on 1979 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yearbook of International Organizations by :
Download or read book Yearbook of International Organizations written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1983/84 published in 3 vols., with expansion to 6 vols. by 2007/2008: vol. 1--Organization descriptions and cross references; vol. 2--Geographic volume: international organization participation; vol. 3--Subject volume; vol. 4--Bibliography and resources; vol. 5--Statistics, visualizations and patterns; vol. 6--Who's who in international organizations. (From year to year some slight variations in naming of the volumes).
Book Synopsis Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945 by : Michael K. Silber
Download or read book Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945 written by Michael K. Silber and published by Magnes Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteen essays in this volume, scholars from three continents explore dispassionately various facets of the Jewish presence in the Hungarian economy over a span of two centuries. (Two of the articles deal with Vienna which had quite a sizeable contingent of Hungarian Jews.) The topics range from ?pure? economic history dealing with entrepreneurship and occupational structure, to related fields such as demography, urbanization and nutrition. Several studies discuss the interaction of both religion and politics with economy. And finally, a section is devoted to a debate on the nature of Jewish economic behavior.
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Book Synopsis Communication and Class Struggle: Capitalism, imperialism by : Armand Mattelart
Download or read book Communication and Class Struggle: Capitalism, imperialism written by Armand Mattelart and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Voice for the Excluded by : Matthias Stiefel
Download or read book A Voice for the Excluded written by Matthias Stiefel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study of participation in development is hardheaded in its conclusion that beneficial development requires the redistribution of power to local communities. The book pulls together the findings of field studies among both rural and urban communities in Latin American and Asian countries, and in Tanzania, to assess what has happened to popular participation since the beginning of the 1980s and to sketch out its future direction .The focus is on the organized efforts of 'the excluded' as well as of NGOs, the state and international agencies. It shows how all interact to encourage, coopt or undermine participatory struggles and initiatives. The book combines historical context and theoretical clarity with sociological examination of a wide variety of actual cases.
