{"product_id":"individual-agency-and-policy-change-at-the-united-nations-1","title":"Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows 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. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDemonstrates 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses 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 \u003ci\u003estatus quo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international organizations and the United Nations. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255446294872,"sku":"9781138806887","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138806887.jpg?v=1771570834","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/individual-agency-and-policy-change-at-the-united-nations-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}