The primary aim of this research is to investigate whether the Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (ARIO) which were completed in 2011 are an effective means of making IOs accountable for international wrongdoing. In order to determine this a hypothetical case was created based on the imaginary scenario that the IMF required its member states to eliminate capital controls as a condition for obtaining loans from the organization. This hypothetical case is argued on behalf of the borrowing states and thus the thesis in part has the form of a legal pleading. This approach was deliberately taken in order to provide a practical example of how the ARIO could be applied to any case related to the responsibility of IOs, not just the one under consideration here. The case is first used to illustrate how the ARIO might be applied in order to determine whether an IO’s conduct amounts to international wrongdoing and results in international responsibility. Secondly, the case is employed to demonstrate whether the ARIO provide remedies for parties injured as a result of international wrongdoing committed by IOs thereby bringing the latter to accountability. At the end of the investigation it is apparent that conduct such as the IMF’s fictional conduct in relation to its policy would amount to international wrongdoing by an IO in light of the ARIO and would incur international responsibility. However, in the course of applying the ARIO to this fictional case, it becomes evident that although the ARIO are effective for establishing the international responsibility of IOs, they are ineffective as a means of making them accountable for any responsibility they incur because they provide various escapes from the legal consequences for international responsibility. It is therefore concluded that IOs are free to continue to engage in international wrongdoing with impunity despite the creation of the ARIO.

What is Chinese behaviour like in the International Labour Organization (ILO) - is China a Status Quo or a Revisionist Actor? Despite the prominence of the issue of China's rise in international relations studies, little research has been published on China's behaviour in international organizations in other realms than the economic. This thesis, therefore, seeks the answer to the posed question. Chinese statements are examined concerning forced and child labour, as well as other distinct themes, their structure and a potential underlying strategy. The findings are retrieved from an analysis of Chinese statements in sittings of ILO organs and checked against information provided in ILO reports to detect discrepancies. A major finding is that the overall behaviour of China in the ILO can categorized as reform-minded status quo, even though there are some factors which could be interpreted as revisionist tendencies. Due to this categorization, a continued peaceful rise of China is considered to be possible.

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This project examines the relationship between the international system and the lived experience of peoples. This dissertation is aimed at understanding the ways in which recognition at the international level can shape not only the way people choose to behave, but also the way they conceive of their own identities. It introduces theorizing on the concepts of identity, habitus, and hysteresis to the field of international relations (IR) in an attempt to better understand often overlooked conflicts created by the international state system. In doing so, it includes an exploration of the role that recognition plays in creating idealized identities for everyone in the state system and the resulting conflicts that arise when individuals possess group identities that do not align with the state-based identities that the international system and its structures are premised upon. Through a return to studying the first image in the IR literature I explore the ways in which varying forms of recognition in international institutions (states, collections of law, and IO positions, agreements, and membership rules) impact the way different groups of people view themselves within the larger global order, and how that in turn alters the way they behave politically over time. I argue that misrecognition of the identities of individuals and collectives of individuals by international institutions and actors threatens their habitus, potentially resulting in shifts in their political behavior dependent upon the cohesion of the collective’s sense of self and the support they have from other members of the international community. / Political Science

No / This paper examines the concept of global public goods (GPGs) and in that context explores the extent of aid (ODA) presently being diverted to GPG provision and whether such diversion skews aid-flows towards some recipients. These are examined on the basis of OECD data for the late 1990s. The main argument of this paper is that ODA should not be used for financing GPG provision by developing countries. Instead, it is suggested that other sources of financing the provision of GPGs should be developed keeping in view the various technologies by which the GPGs can be produced and design principles for supra-national institutions. Various arguments from Sandler, Barrett and Kanbur are considered. In particular, Kanbur's suggestion of two tensions involving the principles of economies of scale, subsidiarity, economies of scope and specialisation, is explored further.

This dissertation traces the international, intellectual, and institutional history of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This organization became the intellectual branch of the United Nations and was able to mobilize intellectual resources from around the world. Historians, educators, economists, and communications theorists used the organization’s conferences, roundtables, and meetings to forge transnational networks. American and European statesmen exploited these networks to encourage postwar peace and promote their own visions of international society. Third World diplomats and intellectuals embraced the organization but campaigned against its Eurocentric priorities. They pushed it to focus on discrediting the set of ideas and assumptions that underpinned the imperial world order. American diplomats and intellectuals championed UNESCO’s anticolonial agenda for decades and assisted such global campaigns as the fight against illiteracy, the preservation of ancient monuments, and the transfer of communications technology. By the 1970s, however, intellectual disagreements about the international economic system sparked a war of ideas and instigated a diplomatic crisis that led to American withdrawal from the organization. The decline of European imperialism and the rise of the Third World led to decades of economic, diplomatic, and military tension. This dissertation concludes that this sea change in world history also led to profound confrontation in the international realm of information and ideas. UNESCO was not the only forum devoted to the international exchange of information and ideas. But its authority as the intellectual arm of the United Nations made it one of the major battlegrounds in the struggle to create a postcolonial world.

This diploma thesis deals with the compensation of victims in the peace operations of international organizations. The issue of compensation to victims in the context of peace operations of international organizations is very complex, because i tis closely connected with many other issues, such as the subjectivity of international organizations, their responsibility or immunity, and it is also closely related to international humanitarian law. It is also a very actual issue, as peace operations are a phenomenon occurring quite often and it can be assumed that they will still be needed in view of the various conflicts that are taking place today. In thesis I deal with the subjectivity of international organizations and their responsibility. The main part consists of chapters dedicated to assessing third-party claims in peace operations and the characteristics of the individual's process options of the victims. The aim of this thesis is primarily to analyze the compensation of victims in peacekeeping operations from a theoretical and practical point of view and to point out some specific problems related to the subject, as well as to conclude whether the current regulation allows victims to exercise their rights adequately. In the first chapter I deal with the subjectivity of international...

Cooperation in international organizations is to a large degree driven and sustained by socialization – the process of inducting actors into the norms and rules of a given community. In the context of international organizations, the most influential state agents are the permanent representatives, the member states’ ambassadors to an international organization. However, systematic studies on the conditions for the socialization of permanent representatives are conspicuously absent in the literature. Instead, most previous research has focused on the conditions for socialization of “high-level officials” in the European Commission. This quite narrow perspective has led to a “N=1” problem and the generalizability of these studies have suffered as a result. In this thesis, I have aimed to broaden this perspective by testing six hypotheses on the conditions for socialization within two committees of permanent representatives in two different international organizations, the PSC (EU) and the NAC (NATO). This has been done by conducting elite interviews with 21 permanent representatives and deputies in Brussels. In contrast to previous research, the results of this thesis suggest that four of the six tested hypotheses should be disregarded, while two hypotheses – the representative’s relation to its MFA and the ambiguity of the international organization’s norms– should be given more theoretical consideration in future research. In addition, the interviews have shown that the degree of “internalization”, which can be understood as the goal and outcome of socialization, is stronger in the NAC than in the PSC. This outcome also contests the conventional wisdom that the EU is a sui generis case of socialization. On the basis of these results, I argue that the socialization of permanent representatives in international organizations is likely to occur if the organization’s norms have unambiguous, existential and materialistic consequences.

This research seeks to explore the behavior of international and regional organizations within conflict management. Previous research on conflict management primarily examines UN peacekeeping as the primary actor and lumps all non-UN actors into a single category. I disaggregate this category, examining how international and regional organizations interact when deciding to establish a peace mission, coordinate a peace mission with multiple organizations, and finally, how this interaction affects the success of peace missions. I propose a collective action theoretical framework in which organizations would rather another actor undertake the burden and costs of implementing a peace mission. I find the United Nations is motivated to overcome the collective action problem through an increase in the severity of the conflict. Regional organizations are motivated to establish a peace mission as the economic and political salience of the conflict increases, increasing the possibility of the regional organization acquiring club goods for its member states. The presence of a regional hegemon within a regional organization also significantly increases the likelihood of an organization both establishing a peace mission and taking on the primary role when coordinating a joint mission. I argue this is because a regional hegemon allows the organization to more easily overcome the collective action problem between its own member states due to the presence of a privileged actor.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-08-18T18:25:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ADELITE PEIXOTO SILVA E CUNHA.pdf: 992853 bytes, checksum: 53d3fb1b9884b13e0eab41a913f2a052 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T18:25:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ADELITE PEIXOTO SILVA E CUNHA.pdf: 992853 bytes, checksum: 53d3fb1b9884b13e0eab41a913f2a052 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-01 / This research aims to study the influences of the constitutional text and the following international organizations: World Bank (WB), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) e Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA), in the development of basic education in Brazil in the period of 1988 through 2011. It handles the study of the results obtained in the basic education sector after the enactment of the 1988 Constitution and the reflections coming from the influences received from supranational bodies. The study is made in a historical context that involves the resumption of democratic freedoms wrapped in influences of neoliberalism in the world. Education as a social right, toward the formation of the subject and education designed to capacitate for the job market are conflicting points when studying the reflections of the projections that international organizations make for Brazil. Basic education, a constitutionally recognized social right, has not reached the expected level of democratization of educational quality, walks, often under the guidance of supranational organizations. There is an urgent need to build a true system of education in Brazil, the difficulty is the lack of theoretical knowledge of Brazilian educators. There have been significant advances in the indicators used to assess the progress made in the educational sector, however, the results have not achieved the excellence that is desired. The coexistence of public and private school raises criticism about the public policies adopted by Brazil in the educational sector. Education has substantial importance for the maintenance of the supremacy of the State, therefore, can’t be conducted according to the projects that look after the interests of supranational organizations. It is essential the care of the actual interests of the Brazilian nation. The almost universalization of elementary education did not represent an improvement in quality, although the projected goals have made progress, there was no significant progress. The results achieved in basic education in Brazil, counted with the participation of the public sector, with funding and collaboration of the international organizations under study and the society, yielding results that indicate, though in timid manner, progress in the educational sector. / Esta pesquisa tem o propósito de verificar as influências do texto constitucional e das seguintes organizações internacionais: Banco Mundial (BM), Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (UNESCO), Fundo das Nações Unidas para a Infância (UNICEF) e da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) no processo de desenvolvimento da educação básica no Brasil, no período compreendido entre 1988 e 2011. Este estudo, de natureza teórico-documental, cuida do estudo dos resultados obtidos no setor da educação básica após a promulgação da Constituição de 1988 e dos reflexos oriundos das influências recebidas dos organismos supranacionais. O estudo se dá em um contexto histórico que envolve a retomada das liberdades democráticas envolto em influências do neoliberalismo no mundo. A educação como um direito social, voltada para a formação do sujeito, e a educação destinada a capacitar para o mercado são pontos conflitantes quando do estudo dos reflexos das projeções que as organizações internacionais fazem para o Brasil. A educação básica, direito social reconhecido constitucionalmente, não alcançou a esperada democratização do ensino de qualidade e caminha, muitas vezes, sob a orientação de organizações supranacionais. É premente a necessidade de construção de um verdadeiro sistema de educação para o Brasil. A dificuldade encontrada está na insuficiência teórica dos educadores brasileiros. Houve avanços significativos nos indicadores utilizados para averiguar os progressos obtidos no setor educacional, no entanto, os resultados não alcançaram a excelência que se objetiva. A coexistência entre a escola pública e a privada suscita críticas acerca das políticas públicas adotadas pelo Brasil no setor educacional. A educação tem importância substancial para a manutenção da supremacia do Estado, portanto, não pode ser conduzida segundo os projetos que cuidam dos interesses de organizações supranacionais. Indispensável o atendimento dos efetivos interesses da nação brasileira. A quase universalização do ensino fundamental não representou melhora na qualidade. E, embora as metas projetadas tenham apresentado avanço, não houve progressos significativos. Os resultados alcançados na educação básica do Brasil contaram com a participação do setor público, com os financiamentos e colaboração das organizações internacionais em estudo e da sociedade, trazendo resultados que indicam, embora de maneira tímida, progressos no setor educacional.