Intervention by international organizations in regime complexes

IT in International Organizations

In my presentation I will highlight 5 main IT challenges which I have identified over the years as typical to International Organizations. These challenges are: (i) alignment of business and IT, (ii) innovation in static environments, (iii) the end of the era of these big IT projects, (iv) successful management and delivery of IT projects and (v) the struggle in IT security. My talk will be non...

Iran’s Foreign Policy Approaches toward International Organizations

Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's point of the view. This study aimed to examine the status of international organizations in Iran’s foreign policy. A divergent approach to international organizations was adopted during 1981-1988 and 2005-2013. ...

Organizational Learning in International Organizations

Voting Rules in International Organizations

International organi.ations use a bewildering variey of voting rules-with diferent thresholds, weighting systems, veto points, and other rules that distribute influence unequally among participants. We provide a brief survey of the major voting systems, and show that all are controversial and unsatisfactory in vaious ways. While it is tempting to blame great powers or the weakness of internatio...

Communication and International Organizations

(This paper was originally presented at the 11th Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Genève, July 1969) under another title and in connection with the Agenda Item : The Second Development Decade — Opportunities and Co-operation for NGO Participation) The next ten years, the period of the United Nations Second D...