Papers, articles, studies, presentations & more

In this section, we loosley collect papers, studies, articles, presentations, bibliograhies, opinion pieces etc. of our members as food for thought for our joint discussions!

UN Studies - Foundations of an Emerging Field of Studies by Kirsten Haack, Julia Harfensteller, Henrike Paepcke (UNSA Discussion Paper #1)
Foreword - Diplomatic Academy Favorita Papers by Michael Platzer
IO Leadership Concept - Presentation by Kirsten Haack and Henrike Paepcke
Innovative Teaching Techniques

For a common language of justice: translating words into deeds - by Slawomir Redo, with friendly permission of the author - the hard-copy article appeared in: Aktualne Problemy Prawa Karnego i Kryminologii, Wydawnictwo Temida 2, Białystok, Poland 2008 (Prof. Emil Pływaczewski, Editor)
Kent J. Kille (Ed.) (2007): The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership, Georgetown University Press
John Mathiason: Paper presented at the ISA Convention in Chicago on Reviving Functionalism and Regime Theory to Explain the Role of International Secretariats. (Search papers by author). Topic: the role of the international public service in the development of the UN system of organizations - an emerging area (but not a new one) in UN Studies.

IO Leadership Concept

Introducing a New Concept of IO Leadership

Kirsten Haack and Henrike Paepcke presented at the PSA conference in Manchester, UK, April 7, 2009.

Title

Leadership in international organisations: the UN Secretary-General

Overview

• Approaches in leadership research and the UNSG – Individual, institutional / interactionist

• The definition and nature of leadership

• Working torwards a new concept of IO leadership

• Focus: supranational ideas and communication

• Proposing new roads for research

• Outlook: What can we learn from other disciplines? Building blocks etc.

Presentation

The presentation can be downloaded here:

Literature Reviews

Research literature (books, articles etc.)

Donald C.F. Daniel, Patricia Taft, and Sharon Wiharta, eds., Peace Operations: Trends, Progress and Prospects. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008.
Kille, Kent (2006): "From Manager to Visionary: The Secretary-General of the United Nations", Palgrave Macmillan

Quite simply: fascinating! groundbreaking!

Ellis, David. "The Organizational Turn in International Organization Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251200_index.html

Fascinating read about why we see IOs the way we do and how organizational theory could add to our anderstanding of IOs. Ellis claims that there is no reason that IOs internal workings shouldn't be considered while the internal workings of states are extensively researched as "both states and IOs are nothing more than corporate fictions" (p.15). Particularly interesting is the Three Images matrix on p. 22 which disentagles the different approaches, levels of analysis and methodologies in both IO and OT (organizational theory) research.

Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain Johnston eds. (2007): Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Very interesting volume comparing the institutional designs of a number of regional organisations. Seeks to move beyond the rational institutional design approach by considering the effectiveness of institutional design.

Textbooks for teaching

Rittberger, Volker, Bernhard Zangl and Matthias Staisch (2006): "International Organization: Polity, Politics and Policies", Palgrave