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Analyzing the role and impact of Diaspora Organizations (DOs) in
International Relations (IR), this interdisciplinary volume
provides empirical accounts of their work across Europe, the
Americas, Africa and the Middle East. Over the last three decades,
DOs have increased in number, spread to new regions, and addressed
an ever-widening array of global problems, yet they have not
received sufficient attention in IR in spite of the inter- and
transnational nature of their involvements. Contributions explore
important topics such as: The role of DOs in cooperation and
conflict and in change and stability; DOs as transnational
organizations and their degree of autonomy and power within the
networks in which they operate; and The changing roles of DOs
vis-a-vis states, regimes, and international organizations, when
dealing with issues as diverse as peace, conflict, migration,
integration, development, humanitarian action, human rights,
religion, and economic growth. Demonstrating how IR can benefit
from a stronger focus on DOs, this book will also help other
disciplines gain insights into DOs and will prove useful to those
in the fields of international relations, sociology, geography and
anthropology.
It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and
impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three
central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory,
Liberalism, Realism and Constructivism, overlook or ignore the
importance of NGOs, both theoretically and politically. Offering a
timely reappraisal of NGOs, and a parallel reappraisal of theory in
IR-the academic discipline entrusted with revealing and explaining
world politics, this book uses practice theory, global governance,
and new institutionalism to theorize NGO accountability and analyze
the history of NGOs. This study uses evidence from empirical data
from Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia and
from studies that range across the issue-areas of peacebuilding,
ethnic reconciliation, and labor rights to show IR theory has often
prejudged and misread the agency of NGOs. Drawing together a group
of leading international relations theorists, this book explores
the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world
politics and is required reading for students, NGO activists, and
policy-makers.
Analyzing the role and impact of Diaspora Organizations (DOs) in
International Relations (IR), this interdisciplinary volume
provides empirical accounts of their work across Europe, the
Americas, Africa and the Middle East. Over the last three decades,
DOs have increased in number, spread to new regions, and addressed
an ever-widening array of global problems, yet they have not
received sufficient attention in IR in spite of the inter- and
transnational nature of their involvements. Contributions explore
important topics such as: The role of DOs in cooperation and
conflict and in change and stability; DOs as transnational
organizations and their degree of autonomy and power within the
networks in which they operate; and The changing roles of DOs
vis-a-vis states, regimes, and international organizations, when
dealing with issues as diverse as peace, conflict, migration,
integration, development, humanitarian action, human rights,
religion, and economic growth. Demonstrating how IR can benefit
from a stronger focus on DOs, this book will also help other
disciplines gain insights into DOs and will prove useful to those
in the fields of international relations, sociology, geography and
anthropology.
Despite the sustained scholarly attention that the United Nations
and international NGOs have received in the twenty-first century,
they still remain under-researched from a management studies
perspective. This volume brings together rich analyses of these
organizations' functioning, arguing that they are best understood
as intermediaries between international decision-making and funding
bodies in the developed world and initiatives that take place on
the ground, primarily in the Global South. Based on current
management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International
Organizations (Berghahn, 2002) provides a wealth of both empirical
and theoretical insights, along with practical recommendations how
these organizations can function more effectively.
As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action
has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to
address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and
precepts. This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons
between emerging and traditional humanitarian actors. It sheds
light on why and how the emerging actors engage in humanitarian
crises and how their activities are carried out and perceived in
their transnational organizational environment. It develops and
applies a conceptual framework that fosters research on
humanitarian actors and the humanitarian principles. In particular,
it simultaneously refers to theories of organizational sociology
and international relations to identify both the structural and the
situational factors that influence the motivations, aims and
activities of these actors, and their different levels of
commitment to the traditional humanitarian principles. It thus
elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting
coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of
humanitarian action, and discusses whether alternative principles
and parallel humanitarian systems are in the making. This volume
will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in
humanitarian studies, globalization and transnationalism research,
organizational sociology, international relations, development
studies, and migration and diaspora studies, as well as policy
makers and practitioners engaged in humanitarian action,
development cooperation and migration issues.
The management of international organizations is attracting growing
attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN
system and International NGOs. Sometimes, this criticism lacks
depth or reflects insufficient understanding of these
organizations, or is based on narrow, and sometimes biased,
internal political concerns of a particular country. International
relations theory has insufficiently studied the type of linkages
that these organizations provide between international
decision-making and Northern fundraising on the one hand, and
practical action in the South on the other. As a result, current
theory too rarely focuses on the inner functioning of these
organizations and is unable to explain the deficiencies and
negative outcomes of their work. While the authors identify and
describe the pathologies of international organizations in, for
example, international diplomacy, fundraising, and implementation,
they also stress positive elements, such as their intermediary
role. The latter, in particular, could form the basis of more
efficient and effective policies, in addition to other recent
trends, also described in this volume, that hold hope for a
stronger functioning of these organizations in the future. This
book presents a long overdue empirical and theoretical overview of
criticism on and cures for these organizations. It provides a
fundamental rethinking of current approaches to the management of
international organizations.
It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and
impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three
central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory,
Liberalism, Realism and Constructivism, overlook or ignore the
importance of NGOs, both theoretically and politically. Offering a
timely reappraisal of NGOs, and a parallel reappraisal of theory in
IR-the academic discipline entrusted with revealing and explaining
world politics, this book uses practice theory, global governance,
and new institutionalism to theorize NGO accountability and analyze
the history of NGOs. This study uses evidence from empirical data
from Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia and
from studies that range across the issue-areas of peacebuilding,
ethnic reconciliation, and labor rights to show IR theory has often
prejudged and misread the agency of NGOs. Drawing together a group
of leading international relations theorists, this book explores
the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world
politics and is required reading for students, NGO activists, and
policy-makers.
As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action
has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to
address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and
precepts. This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons
between emerging and traditional humanitarian actors. It sheds
light on why and how the emerging actors engage in humanitarian
crises and how their activities are carried out and perceived in
their transnational organizational environment. It develops and
applies a conceptual framework that fosters research on
humanitarian actors and the humanitarian principles. In particular,
it simultaneously refers to theories of organizational sociology
and international relations to identify both the structural and the
situational factors that influence the motivations, aims and
activities of these actors, and their different levels of
commitment to the traditional humanitarian principles. It thus
elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting
coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of
humanitarian action, and discusses whether alternative principles
and parallel humanitarian systems are in the making. This volume
will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in
humanitarian studies, globalization and transnationalism research,
organizational sociology, international relations, development
studies, and migration and diaspora studies, as well as policy
makers and practitioners engaged in humanitarian action,
development cooperation and migration issues.
The management of international organizations is attracting growing
attention. Most of this attention is highly critical of both the UN
system and International NGOs. Sometimes, this criticism lacks
depth or reflects insufficient understanding of these
organizations, or is based on narrow, and sometimes biased,
internal political concerns of a particular country. International
relations theory has insufficiently studied the type of linkages
that these organizations provide between international
decision-making and Northern fundraising on the one hand, and
practical action in the South on the other. As a result, current
theory too rarely focuses on the inner functioning of these
organizations and is unable to explain the deficiencies and
negative outcomes of their work. While the authors identify and
describe the pathologies of international organizations in, for
example, international diplomacy, fundraising, and implementation,
they also stress positive elements, such as their intermediary
role. The latter, in particular, could form the basis of more
efficient and effective policies, in addition to other recent
trends, also described in this volume, that hold hope for a
stronger functioning of these organizations in the future. This
book presents a long overdue empirical and theoretical overview of
criticism on and cures for these organizations. It provides a
fundamental rethinking of current approaches to the management of
international organizations.
Providing medical support to the local population during a chronic
crisis is difficult. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), which is characterized by high excess mortality,
ongoing armed violence, mass forced displacement, interference by
neighboring countries, resource exploitation, asset stripping, and
the virtual absence of the state, has led to great poverty and a
dearth of funds for the support of the health system. International
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have stepped in to address the
dire humanitarian situation. This study looks at four organizations
that support local health care in the eastern DRC: the
International Rescue Committee (IRC), Malteser, Medical Emergency
Relief International (Merlin), and the Association Regionale
d'Approvisionnement en Medicaments Essentiels (ASRAMES). The study
makes a comparison of the management and financing approaches of
these four organizations by collecting and comparing qualitative
and quantitative data on their interaction with the (remaining)
local health providers and the local population. Specific
objectives of the study are: 1. To identify which management and
financing approaches, including the setting of fees, are used by
the four NGOs supporting healthcare in the eastern DRC. 2. To
determine how these financing approaches affect utilization rates
in the health zones supported by the four NGOs. 3. To assess how
these utilization rates compare with donor and humanitarian
standards. 4. To determine at what level fees must be set to allow
for cost recovery or cost sharing in health facilities. 5. To
identify the managerial problems confronting the four NGOs. Many
epidemiological and public health studies focus on the interaction
between health providers and target groups. Supporting Local Health
Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in
the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo concentrates more on
how the relationship between the supporting NGOs and the local
health system actually develops. In addition, a common aspect of
many of the epidemiological and public health studies is the search
for an optimal, or at least appropriate, management and financing
approach.
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