The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations

Lyon, Alynna J.; Stiles, Kendall W.; Edgar, Alistair D.; Mills, Kurt; Romaniuk, Peter

doi:10.1163/19426720-02602008

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“…Our focus on entrepreneurial agents further corresponds to work on the impact of executive heads in IOs (Hall & Woods, 2018) and the influence of international bureaucrats during the formation of IOs (Johnson, 2014). Beyond these, our paper speaks to the broader literature on multilateral governance (Faude, 2020; Fioretos & Heldt, 2019; Hale et al, 2013), IO decay and survival (Debre & Dijkstra, 2021; Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni, 2020; Gray, 2018), and, more specifically, to studies investigating the current challenges facing the UN system (Acharya & Plesch, 2020; Lyon et al, 2020). Second, this study contributes to the principal‐agent literature.…”

Section: Persistence Against the Odds: The Un Joint Inspection Unitmentioning

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Persistence Against the Odds: How Entrepreneurial Agents Helped the UN Joint Inspection Unit to Prevail

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Since its inception in 1966, the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) has prevailed in the face of significant existential challenges. Against this backdrop, we investigate how and why the JIU persisted over time. Combining delegation and historical institutionalist approaches, we posit that entrepreneurial agents and layering processes together help us better understand persistence of international organizations. Based on semi‐structured interviews with UN staff and JIU inspectors, we examine three critical junctures in the history of the JIU. Our results show that entrepreneurial agents and stakeholders in the JIU managed to avoid the closure or demotion of the JIU by engaging in a strategy of institutional layering. Our analysis, however, also demonstrates that the JIU survived at the price of losing its privilege as the central UN oversight body. These findings have implications for the study of international organizations and for the reform of the UN system at large.

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Persistence Against the Odds: How Entrepreneurial Agents Helped the UN Joint Inspection Unit to Prevail

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Reflecting about the Past, Present, and Future of UN Mediation

Hellmüller

Wählisch

2022

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This thematic issue explores the past, present, and future of UN mediation. Based on in-depth case studies of UN mediation in some of the most intractable contemporary armed conflicts, it shows the challenges related to lacking consensus amongst third parties, disunity in the UN Security Council, and the internationalization of conflicts. At the same time, it highlights the UN’s legitimacy, expertise, and convening power, and its importance in the context of broader international dispute management systems. It also underlines the need to rethink how we measure success of UN mediation efforts and to reflect on the consequences of increasing normative plurality in world politics. Finally, this issue points to some areas for future research, including more critical mediation theory, reflections about the worldviews underlying UN mediation, and innovative approaches related to the UN reform agenda.

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The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations

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Persistence Against the Odds: How Entrepreneurial Agents Helped the UN Joint Inspection Unit to Prevail

Persistence Against the Odds: How Entrepreneurial Agents Helped the UN Joint Inspection Unit to Prevail

Reflecting about the Past, Present, and Future of UN Mediation

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