Power shifts in international organisations: China at the United Nations

S Haug, R Foot, MO Baumann - Global Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The People's Republic of China is central to current debates about power shifts in
international organisations, but a systematic and comprehensive assessment of China …

Personnel power shift? Unpacking China's attempts to enter the UN civil service

S Lam, CJ Fung - Global Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The People's Republic of China views dispatching Chinese talent to international
organisations as a key global governance contribution and a means to shape these …

The increasing representativeness of international organizations' secretariats: Evidence from the United Nations System, 1997–2015

M Parizek, MD Stephen - International Studies Quarterly, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Although international organizations (IOs) and their secretariats play important roles in
international politics, we know surprisingly little about their staffing composition and the …

Does earmarked funding affect the performance of international organisations?

B Reinsberg, C Siauwijaya - Global Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
What determines the performance of international organisations (IOs)? We argue that
funding structures remain an overlooked driver of IO performance. Over the past decades …

Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations

AL Rüland, N Rüffin, K Cramer… - Science and Public …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Intergovernmental science organizations (IGSOs) address many challenges of the 21st
century. Several countries of the Global South have joined established IGSOs or have …

Bureaucratic Representation in the IMF and the World Bank

C Weaver, M Heinzel, S Jorgensen… - Global Perspectives, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
The legitimacy and effectiveness of international organizations are often linked directly to
issues of representation—not only on their high-level governing boards and in top …

The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC)

Y Reykers, J Adriaensen - European Security, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research has shown that staffing of international organisations (IOs) is politics.
Understaffing of IOs, by contrast, has hardly received scholarly attention. By drawing upon …

Behind closed doors: Informal influence on United Nations staffing and pathologies of international bureaucracies

T Gui - Global Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This research explores the mechanisms through which member states informally shape
staffing decisions in the United Nations, extending the traditional view of influence beyond …

The Scandinavian states' staffing of the United Nations‐system

J Pugh - Scandinavian Political Studies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the Scandinavian states' staffing of middle and senior‐ranking
positions within the United Nations (UN)‐system, in comparison to other members of the …

Elite clubs as career elevator? Mixed evidence from the Bilderberg Group

L Kantor - International Politics, 2023 - Springer
This article is the first systematic examination of the proposition that politicians can foster
their careers through affiliations with transnational elite clubs. Focusing on the Euro-Atlantic …