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INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND POLICY CHANGE AT THE UNITED NATIONS IBD

INGVILD BODE
ROUTLEDGE
06 / 2021
9781032098760
Inglés

Sinopsis

This bookáhighlights how temporary international civil servantsáplay a crucial role in initiating processes of legal and institutional change in the United Nations system.áThese individuals are the 'missing' creative elements needed to fully understand the emergence and initial spread of UN ideas such as human development, sovereignty as responsibility, and multifunctional peacekeeping. The book:Shows that thatá temporary UN officials are an actor category which is empirically crucial, yet usually neglected in analytical studies of the UN system. Focussing on these particular individual actors therefore allows for a better understanding of complex UN decision-making. Demonstrates how these civil servants matter, looking atáwhat their agency is based on. Offering aánew and distinctive model,áBode seeks to moveátowards a comprehensive conceptualisation of individual agency, which is currently conspicuous for its absence in many theoretical approaches that address policy changeUses three key case studies ofá international civil servants (Francis Deng,áMahbub ul Haq andá Marrack Goulding) to explore the possibilities of this specific group of UN individuals to act as agents of change and thereby test the prevailing notion that international bureaucrats can only act as agents of the status quo.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international organizations and the United Nations.