Value of Public Administration Management to International Relations: Scaffolding an Inter-Disciplinary Research Agenda

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the theory and praxis for both disciplines. However, since then, the study of PAM and IR were separated in substance in what was called the "great divide" in IR, the presumption that domestic and international politics are distinct spheres that are defined by distinct organizing principles. Today, this "great divide" is being challenged with globalization. However, the attempt of looking at the domestic aspects of IR and international aspects of PAM stopped short of a deep inter-disciplinary discourse. Apart from labeling its international/global version of PAM and vice versa, the scope and objectives of this inter-discipline has been under-theorized. IR can be conceptually defined as how international affairs work while PAM as how [domestic] public affairs work. As such, both can be seen as applied social and policy sciences aimed at tackling public problems at different levels (international, regional and national/domestic). There are at least two complementary ways to build this inter-disciplinary discourse:(1) what can IR offer PAM; (2) what can PAM offer IR, before a research synthesis (Harris, 2010) effort to consolidate the similarities, differences and interesting aspects in order to lay a coherent foundation of PAM-IR inter-discipline. For reasons of scope and space, this essay attempts to explore the latter research question. PAM

Challenges Confronting Whistleblowing and the International Civil Servant

“…Member-states authorize these institutions to address transnational problems and they work with transnational civil servants to achieve common perspectives. Yet the global governance arena has no single executive, legislative, or judicial branch; no separation of powers; and no uniform laws upon which an employee might rely (Phua Chao Rong, 2015). There are neither unified internal nor external whistleblower appeal mechanisms nor commonly accepted whistleblower definitions.…”