Why International Organizations Commit to Liberal Norms

Norms in Distributed Organizations

Due to external requirements we cannot always construct a centralized organization, but have to construct one that is distributed. A distributed organization is a network of organizations which can locally observe and control the environment. In this paper we analyze how norms can be enforced through the joint effort of the individual local organizations. Norm violations are detected by monitor...

Humanitarian Information Exchange Network: Why Do International Humanitarian Organizations Collaborate?

While in recent years research has highlighted the rise of inter-organizational collaboration among organizations in the nonprofit sector and has documented issues related to forming and maintaining of these relationships, there is little known about inter-organizational humanitarian information exchange and especially the motives of collaboration. In this paper, we examine collaboration relati...

Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide.

Major depression forms the background of upwards of half of all suicides. Women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression, yet women are one fourth as likely as men to take their own lives. Current and past explanations of this paradox are built on androcentric assumptions that women are deficient in some way. The reverse may be true where suicide is concerned. Men value indepen...

TO COMMIT or NOT TO COMMIT ?

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. ...