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Organized hypocrisy or multiple actors and centres of agency? Examining the competitive arena for normative change processes in the area of peacekeeping
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Karlsrud, John |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | How does normative change occur in IOs? Previously IO behaviour has been theorized as a consequence of the interest of powerful states, but recent literature has begun to unpack the processes of normative change in IOs, and according agency in normative change processes elsewhere than to member states and powerful states . This has been done with concepts borrowed from organizational sociology related to b ureaucratic dysfunction such as ‘dysfunctional behaviour’, ‘pathologies’, or ‘organ ized hypocrisy’. In the area of UN peacekeeping operations, the UN bureaucracy itself with the Secretary-General have been argued as norm entrepreneur. The paper will agree t o this bottom-up perspective on normative formation, but also propose that there is a complex interplay between external and internal actors in the normative change processes in the UN, and that policy alliances formed by active small states such as Norway, think-tanks and NGOs may have an impact on the normative development. The paper will use the sociology of pr ofessions and the concept of ‘revolving doors’ to theorize normative change processes in th e area of peacekeeping. Finally, the paper will question of what kind of legitimacy norms hold that may not have been initiated, nor developed by member states per se in the UN system, but generated through practices in the field and at headquarters, as well as by active sma ll states. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ecpr.eu/filestore/paperproposal/33105631-118e-4e28-9cbd-0466c110376b.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
