Overlap and interplay between international organisations: theories and approaches

Brosig, Malte

doi:10.1080/10220461.2011.588828

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“…In this vein, the emerging literature on IO interplay assumes that IOs have an incentive to interact if their capacity to reach a certain goal cannot be achieved with their own resources. 29 Theoretically a connection can be drawn between convergence and dependency theory as developed by organization theorists. 30 This theoretical school proclaims that in principle every actor operates under resource scarcity, as resources are finite.…”

Section: The Emerging Security Complexmentioning

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Introduction: The African Security Regime Complex—Exploring Converging Actors and Policies

Brosig

2013

African Security

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This article formulates the conceptual framework for a special issue on Africa's evolving security architecture. It argues that security governance in Africa can be understood as an emerging regime complex that is characterized by partially converging actors such as the United Nations, European Union, African Union, African Regional Economic Communities, and single lead nations. Center stage is the analysis of converging security policies. We distinguish between five convergence types that vary in terms of depth and efficacy. Theoretically the special issue makes a contribution to theory building on regime complexes and international organizations interplay by developing a theoretical typology. This introductory article primarily serves to introduce concepts and categories.

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Section: The Emerging Security Complexmentioning

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Introduction: The African Security Regime Complex—Exploring Converging Actors and Policies

Brosig

2013

African Security

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“…Furthermore, organisations today admittedly share competencies, forcing them to coordinate their actions. 12 Therefore institutional interplay needs to be acknowledged. Although such interaction may well lead to norm convergence, the fact that organisations generally have very different dynamics could alternatively result in cementing contestation.…”

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Norm evolution within and across the African Union and the United Nations: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a contested norm

Zähringer

2013

South African Journal of International Affairs

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This article examines the evolution of the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm through the institutional frameworks of the African Union and the United Nations. The investigation aligns itself with recent constructivist thinking around norm evolution and contestation which holds that diverging interpretations around norms facilitate not only norm contestation, but ultimately norm acceptance. In this case different 'meanings-in-use' of R2P within and across both organisations reinforce the contested nature of R2P. This becomes most apparent in the prevailing confusion around the affiliated concept of the protection of civilians, which is not effectively delineated from R2P. Nevertheless R2P is found to be widely acknowledged within both organisations.

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“…As Witt notes, the 'politics' and 'messiness' of APSA is largely absent from pertinent studies, perhaps also due to a lack of access to the relevant data and sites of participant observation (Witt 2018, 4-5;Witt and Khadiagala 2018, 136). Similarly, scholars who have linked the analysis of the regional African organizations to the wider IR debate on regime complexity and institutional overlap (Brosig 2011(Brosig , 2013Williams 2013) have recently noted that the 'realities', practices and processes of organizational interaction and security governance are much more multi-faceted than a focus on formal frameworks reveals.…”

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Hybridity and Friction in Organizational Politics: New Perspectives on the African Security Regime Complex

Moe

Geis

2020

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Security governance in Africa constitutes a web of interactions between national, regional, and international organizations. This emerging 'African security regime complex' receives growing attention in International Relations debates on international organizations (IOs). Most analysis, however, follows institutionalist and problem-solving approaches, centred on regulatory concerns. We offer a different perspective. Moving beyond dominant perspectives on organizations as either pre-given institutional 'wholes' or rationalized 'tools' of states, we instead unpack the 'politics of organizations', understood as the multiple processes and forms of agency through which organizations emerge, diversify and transform. In doing so, we bring IO analysis into conversation with debates on hybridity, friction and translocality.

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Overlap and interplay between international organisations: theories and approaches

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Introduction: The African Security Regime Complex—Exploring Converging Actors and Policies

Introduction: The African Security Regime Complex—Exploring Converging Actors and Policies

Norm evolution within and across the African Union and the United Nations: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a contested norm

Hybridity and Friction in Organizational Politics: New Perspectives on the African Security Regime Complex

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