This book highlights how temporary international civil servants
play a crucial role in initiating processes of legal and
institutional change in the United Nations system. These
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 that 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 at what their
agency is based on. Offering a new and distinctive model, Bode
seeks to move towards a comprehensive conceptualisation of
individual agency, which is currently conspicuous for its absence
in many theoretical approaches that address policy change Uses
three key case studies of international civil servants (Francis
Deng, Mahbub ul Haq and 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.
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