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Internationale Bürokratien und Organisationslernen. Konturen einer Forschungsagenda
Der Beitrag ist forschungsprogrammatischer Natur und skizziert die Konturen einer Forschungsagenda, die sich eines in der IB in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten weitgehend vernachlässigten Gegenstandsbereichs annimmt: internationalen Bürokratien. Der erste Teil identifiziert elf Forschungsfelder: interne Struktur, Führung, Interaktion mit den Mitgliedsstaaten, inter organisationale Beziehungen, Einbindung in neue Formen von Governance, Autorität/Einfluss, Rechenschaft/Legitimität, Wirkung/Evaluierung, institutionelles Design, Reform/Wandel und Lernen. Der zweite Teil illustriert die Umsetzung der Agenda anhand eines der zentralen Forschungsthemen: Organisationslernen in internationalen Bürokratien. Der dritte Teil diskutiert Desiderata zur besseren Einbettung der postulierten Forschungsagenda in die Disziplin IB. This article sketches an agenda for furthering research on international bureaucracies, a topic neglected by IR researchers over the past decades. The first part identifies eleven topics: internal governance, leadership, interaction with principals, inter-organizational relations, roles in new forms of public-private governance, authority/influence, accountability/legitimacy, impact evaluation, institutional design, change/reform and learning. The second part uses the topic of organizational learning as an illustration and presents a framework for analyzing learning in international bureaucracies. The third part discusses challenges for better embedding research on international bureaucracies into the discipline of IR.
Journal Article
International Bureaucracies and Organizational Learning
This article sketches an agenda for furthering research on international bureaucracies, a topic neglected by IR researchers over the past decades. The first part identifies eleven topics: internal governance, leadership, interaction with principals, inter-organizational relations, roles in new forms of public-private governance, authority/ influence, accountability/legitimacy, impact evaluation, institutional design, change/ reform and learning. The second part uses the topic of organizational learning as an illustration and presents a framework for analyzing learning in international bureaucracies. The third part discusses challenges for better embedding research on international bureaucracies into the discipline of IR. Adapted from the source document.
Journal Article
Europe's China angst; Europe's China angst
Consider this: battalions of People's Liberation Army soldiers in the world's major hot spots -- Afghanistan, Sudan, Lebanon; People's Armed Police officers patrolling the streets of Gaza; Chinese gunboats securing the Strait of Hormuz; ranking Chinese Communist Party members holding strategic high-level posts at the U.N., the World Bank, and the W.T.O.; China's voting power in International Financial Institutions drastically increased; China spearheading regional integration in Asia. At the top, however, the annual E.U.-China summit meetings have failed to provide political backing for the E.U.'s new type of network diplomacy that engages with different actors at different levels of the Chinese government. It is time for the E.U. to make the summits count. The E.U. needs to bring to the table a clear agenda on which the E.U. can build broad consensus. This could include a concrete framework for assisting Beijing's ambitious new climate-change goals, or urging China to participate in international efforts to halt Iran's nuclear-weapons program.
Newspaper Article
Rescuing the blue helmets Peacekeepers or targets?
Recent reports from Darfur, the largest and most expensive UN mission to date, are reminiscent of the news from Bosnia in the weeks before the fall of Srebrenica: UN peacekeepers, facing a logistical and political nightmare, are unable to defend themselves, let alone protect the civilian population. Were further large-scale atrocities to occur under the UN's watch in Darfur, the repercussions would threaten to undermine the entire business of peace operations. To accomplish this, member states need to clearly commit to the doctrine that a UN peace operation should only be deployed if there is actually a peace to keep, underwritten by a credible commitment by the major conflict parties to work toward a political solution. If taking the \"Responsibility to Protect\" seriously in some cases requires military intervention, member states should not rely on the instrument of peacekeeping, which is ill-suited for this task. Key member states must also lower expectations on what peacekeepers can realistically achieve in Darfur. They must make it crystal clear to the public that the absence of peace in Darfur is not the fault of UN peacekeepers but a result of the international community's inability to force the conflict parties into a lasting political settlement.
Newspaper Article
Rescuing the blue helmets Peacekeepers or targets?
Recent reports from Darfur, the largest and most expensive UN mission to date, are reminiscent of the news from Bosnia in the weeks before the fall of Srebrenica: UN peacekeepers, facing a logistical and political nightmare, are unable to defend themselves, let alone protect the civilian population. Were further large-scale atrocities to occur under the UN's watch in Darfur, the repercussions would threaten to undermine the entire business of peace operations. To accomplish this, member states need to clearly commit to the doctrine that a UN peace operation should only be deployed if there is actually a peace to keep, underwritten by a credible commitment by the major conflict parties to work toward a political solution. If taking the \"Responsibility to Protect\" seriously in some cases requires military intervention, member states should not rely on the instrument of peacekeeping, which is ill-suited for this task. Key member states must also lower expectations on what peacekeepers can realistically achieve in Darfur. They must make it crystal clear to the public that the absence of peace in Darfur is not the fault of UN peacekeepers but a result of the international community's inability to force the conflict parties into a lasting political settlement.
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