Cooperation, co-optation, competition, conflict: international bureaucracies and non-governmental organizations in an interdependent world

Autor: Tana Johnson
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Review of International Political Economy. 23:737-767
ISSN: 1466-4526
0969-2290
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2016.1217902
Popis: International bureaucrats employed in inter-governmental organizations (IGOs) have a stake in the solidification and expansion of traditional global governance structures. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often are thought to be threats to IGOs. But international bureaucracies regularly seek cooperation with NGOs that can help in ‘cross-national layering’: the creation of formal or informal international institutions that overlay domestic institutions, seeking to replace or subsume them over time. This article develops a ‘4Cs taxonomy’ in which shared/unshared resource bases and shared/unshared values translate into cooperative, co-optative, competitive, or conflictual relations between NGOs and international bureaucracies. It then examines the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) over a 70-year period, showing how different mixes of resources and values help to explain why FAO bureaucrats have cycled through different relationships with NGOs. This exemplifies themes of the New Interdepend...
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