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Einsiedel, Sebastian von; Malone, David M.; Ugarte, Bruno Stagno

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“…However, the data suggest that there have been shifts in the impact of these variables over time (see Figure 4). The s -score variable is significantly more negative during 2005–19, suggesting that agenda exclusion has become more dominant from 2005 and onwards, possibly in reflection of the greater tensions in the UNSC (see von Einsiedel, Malone and Ugarte 2015). We also note that the Trade variable was predicted negatively in the 1989–2004 period, indicating that conflicts in important trading partners were disproportionately kept off the UNSC's agenda during this time.…”

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“…The UNSC has attracted considerable scholarly attention. In recent decades, literatures have developed around both UNSC decision-making (Voeten 2001; Voeten 2005; von Einsiedel, Malone and Ugarte 2015; Vreeland and Dreher 2014) and UNSC interventions, such as peacekeeping (see, for example, Di Salvatore et al 2022; Fortna 2008; Howard 2008), economic sanctions (see, for example, Chesterman and Pouligny 2003) and mediation (Hansen, McLaughlin Mitchell and Nemeth 2008; Tir and Karreth 2018). These literatures provide important insights into the internal dynamics of the UNSC, its ability to agree on policy and its external effects on the trajectories of the issues, conflicts and crises with which it decides to engage.…”

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“…A primary reason for the divergent findings, however, is the tendency in quantitative studies to model and measure the P5 as a collective (see, for example, Allen and Yuen 2020; Benson and Gizelis 2020; Binder and Golub 2020; Frederking and Patane 2017). 1 In light of historical evidence that emphasizes P5 tensions as a defining characteristic of the UNSC (see, for example, Malone and Malone 2004; von Einsiedel, Malone and Ugarte 2015) and new data sources allowing for fine-grained disaggregation, modelling P5 preferences as collective averages appears unwarranted and unnecessary. Homogenizing the P5 obscures central dimensions of variation that can help us understand UNSC dynamics and in what specific ways P5 interests balance against the UN's organizational mission.…”

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What explains why the United Nations Security Council meets and deliberates on some armed conflicts but not others? We advance a theoretical argument centred on the role of conflict externalities, state interests and interest heterogeneity. We investigate data on the Security Council's deliberation on armed conflicts in the 1989–2019 period and make three key findings: (1) conflicts that generate substantive military or civilian deaths are more likely to attract the Security Council's attention; (2) permanent members are varyingly likely to involve the Security Council when their interests are at stake; and (3) in contrast to the conventional wisdom, conflicts over which members have divergent interests are more likely to enter the agenda than other conflicts. The findings have important implications for debates about the Security Council's attention, responsiveness to problems and role in world politics.

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The Islamic Conception of Peacebuilding (Hifz Al-Salam) Under the Auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nation’s Sustaining Peace Agenda

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Advocacy and Change in International Organizations

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2023

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How do international organizations change? Many organizations expand into new areas or abandon programmes of work. This book argues that they do so not only at the collective direction of member states. Advocacy is a crucial but overlooked source of change in international organizations. Different actors can advocate for change: national diplomats, international bureaucrats, external experts, or civil society activists. They can use one of three advocacy strategies: social pressure, persuasion, and ‘authority talk’. The success of each strategy depends on the presence of favourable conditions related to characteristics of advocates, targets, issues, and context. Institutionalization of new issues in international organizations is a multistage process, often accompanied by contestation. This book demonstrates how the advocacy-focused framework explains the origins of three workstreams of contemporary UN peacekeeping operations: communication, protection, and reconstruction. The issue of strategic communications was promoted by UN officials through the strategy of persuasion. Protection of civilians emerged due to a partially successful social influence campaign by a coalition of elected Security Council members and a subsequent persuasion effort by Canada. Quick impact projects entered peacekeepers’ practice as the result of ‘authority talk’ by an expert panel. The three issues illustrate the diversity of pathways to change in international organizations, representing the top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in pathways. The three issues have achieved different degrees of institutionalization in the UN’s policies, structures, and frameworks: protection of civilians is the most institutionalized, as evidenced by measures to hold peacekeepers accountable for non-implementation, while quick impact projects are the least institutionalized.

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Cited by 16 publications

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Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict

Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict

The Islamic Conception of Peacebuilding (Hifz Al-Salam) Under the Auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nation’s Sustaining Peace Agenda

Advocacy and Change in International Organizations

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