Sökning: "International organizations"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 183 avhandlingar innehållade orden International organizations.
1. International organizations as peacemakers : The evolution and effectiveness of intergovernmental instruments to end civil war
Sammanfattning : Across four self-contained essays, this dissertation seeks to identify which features make international organizations (IOs) effective peacemakers in modern civil wars. The first essay introduces an original dataset on the institutional design of 21 peace-brokering IOs between 1945 and 2010. LÄS MER
2. International organizations and children’s rights : Norm adoption, pressure tactics and state compliance
Sammanfattning : Since the adoption of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the attention given by international organizations (IOs) to children’s rights has increased. This dissertation seeks to identify what this means for the global promotion of children’s rights, by addressing three interrelated questions: 1. LÄS MER
3. Global Adaptation Governance : Evidence from 30 International Organizations, 1990-2017
Sammanfattning : Human adaptation to major climate change and variability is becoming an increasing concern among both scholars and practitioners. This PhD thesis examines the engagement of international organizations (IOs) in the governance of climate change adaptation. LÄS MER
4. Fields of Gold : The Bioenergy Debate in International Organizations
Sammanfattning : The concept of producing energy from biomass has, for the last two decades, occupied attention of policy-makers, private industries, researchers and civil societies around the world. The highly contested and contingent character of the biofuel production, its entanglement in the nexus of three problematic issues of energy, climate and agriculture, as well as its injection into the current socioeconomic arrangements, is what makes it timely to analyse. LÄS MER
5. Non-State Participation in International Organizations : Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences
Sammanfattning : Over recent decades, one of the most prominent developments in global governance has been the expanded involvement of non-state actors (NSAs) in the policy-making bodies of international organizations (IOs). This trend is expected to have positive implications for democracy and effectiveness in global governance by improving participation, accountability, and representation, and by allowing IOs to draw on NSA resources to improve policy-making. LÄS MER