We the peoples of the United Nations
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Over the past decades there has been a shift in world politics, from a state-centric view of world order towards a new global world order. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play an important role in this era of globalisation.
Through an analysis, based on Rosenau´s view of the new global world order, the purpose of this study is to explore and discuss the complexity with an increased role of NGOs in the United Nations. There are obvious benefits with an increased role of NGOs. They serve as positive contributors as agenda setter and watch-dogs, they play an important role in policy implementation and they have a democratizing role. However, there is another side of these benefits. Three problems of an increased role of NGOs in the... (More) - Over the past decades there has been a shift in world politics, from a state-centric view of world order towards a new global world order. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play an important role in this era of globalisation.
Through an analysis, based on Rosenau´s view of the new global world order, the purpose of this study is to explore and discuss the complexity with an increased role of NGOs in the United Nations. There are obvious benefits with an increased role of NGOs. They serve as positive contributors as agenda setter and watch-dogs, they play an important role in policy implementation and they have a democratizing role. However, there is another side of these benefits. Three problems of an increased role of NGOs in the UN-system have been identified; the problem of state-sovereignty, the politicization of aid and NGOs influence and the deficit of democracy.
Another purpose of this study is to explore why it has been so hard to implement NGOs role in the United Nations. The role of NGOs was a priority in the beginning of the UN-reform process, but it almost disappeared in the final stage. How can this be explained? (Less)
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- author
- Collste, Jenny
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- NGOs, UN reform-process, global commissions, global governance, Rosenau, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1325970
- date added to LUP
- 2006-06-19 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-06-19 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Over the past decades there has been a shift in world politics, from a state-centric view of world order towards a new global world order. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play an important role in this era of globalisation.
Through an analysis, based on Rosenau´s view of the new global world order, the purpose of this study is to explore and discuss the complexity with an increased role of NGOs in the United Nations. There are obvious benefits with an increased role of NGOs. They serve as positive contributors as agenda setter and watch-dogs, they play an important role in policy implementation and they have a democratizing role. However, there is another side of these benefits. Three problems of an increased role of NGOs in the UN-system have been identified; the problem of state-sovereignty, the politicization of aid and NGOs influence and the deficit of democracy.
Another purpose of this study is to explore why it has been so hard to implement NGOs role in the United Nations. The role of NGOs was a priority in the beginning of the UN-reform process, but it almost disappeared in the final stage. How can this be explained?}},
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title = {{We the peoples of the United Nations}},
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