The politics of crisis management by regional and international organizations in fighting against a global pandemic: the member states at a crossroads
| Autor: | Steven Van Hecke, Harald Fuhr, Wouter Wolfs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science Member states media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Climate change Crisis management Multilateralism 050601 international relations 0506 political science Politics Political science Political economy Pandemic 050602 political science & public administration media_common.cataloged_instance European union Autonomy media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Review of Administrative Sciences. 87:672-690 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7226 0020-8523 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0020852320984516 |
| Popis: | Despite new challenges like climate change and digitalization, global and regional organizations recently went through turbulent times due to a lack of support from several of their member states. Next to this crisis of multilateralism, the COVID-19 pandemic now seems to question the added value of international organizations for addressing global governance issues more specifically. This article analyses this double challenge that several organizations are facing and compares their ways of managing the crisis by looking at their institutional and political context, their governance structure, and their behaviour during the pandemic until June 2020. More specifically, it will explain the different and fragmented responses of the World Health Organization, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund/World Bank. With the aim of understanding the old and new problems that these international organizations are trying to solve, this article argues that the level of autonomy vis-a-vis the member states is crucial for understanding the politics of crisis management. Points for practitioners As intergovernmental bodies, international organizations require authorization by their member states. Since they also need funding for their operations, different degrees of autonomy also matter for reacting to emerging challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The potential for international organizations is limited, though through proactive and bold initiatives, they can seize the opportunity of the crisis and partly overcome institutional and political constraints. |
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