Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations
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Field Actors
Global Institutions
HDI
HDR Office
High Cognitive Complexity
Human Development
Human Development Idea
human development policy
Human Development Story
IDP
individual agency in global governance
Influence Stories
Internally Displaced
International Civil Servants
international civil service
Leadership Trait Analysis
Legal Institutional Setting
NGO Coalition
Ngok Dinka
organisational change theory
Peacekeeping
peacekeeping reform
policy entrepreneurship
Regulative Ideas
Special Political Affairs
Task Focus
Temporary Civil Servants
UNAVEM II
UNDP Administrator
UNDP Governing Council
United Nations
Vice Versa
World Development Report
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- ISBN 9781138806887
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Ingvild Bode is a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.
