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Der Autor wählt einen innovativen quantitativen Ansatz zur Frage der Machtverteilung zwischen Staaten. Die Vorhersagekraft unterschiedlicher Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen wird dabei anhand des Erfolgs und Misserfolgs 21 westlicher Staaten in kompetitiven Wahlen innerhalb der Vereinten Nationen für den Zeitraum zwischen 1990 und 2006 statistisch analysiert. Die hieraus hervorgehende Panelanalyse ergibt, dass eine auf militärischer und wirtschaftlicher Macht basierende neorealistische Faktorvariable die zu beobachtende Varianz am besten zu erklären vermag. Auch dem Amtsbonuseffekt lässt sich eine wichtige Rolle zuweisen.

AbstractPLAN International (PLAN) developed a methodology to ensure that its robust growth in the late 1980s and early 1990s was directed in a manner that was explicitly consistent with organizational strategy. This methodology enabled it to target its growth toward countries where child‐related need was greater and in which its program approach was likely to have most impact. Managers of international nongovernmental organizations should find PLAN's experience relevant as they strive to strike a balance between organizational expansion, with its pressures and distractions, and the crucial need to maintain institutional focus.

"It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory, Liberalism, Realism and Constructivism, overlook or ignore the importance of NGOs, both theoretically and politically. Offering a timely reappraisal of NGOs, and a parallel reappraisal of theory in IR--the academic discipline entrusted with revealing and explaining world politics, this book uses practice theory, global governance, and new institutionalism to theorize NGO accountability and analyze the history of NGOs. This study uses evidence from empirical data from Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia and from studies that range across the issue-areas of peacebuilding, ethnic reconciliation, and labor rights to show IR theory has often prejudged and misread the agency of NGOs. Drawing together a group of leading international relations theorists, this book explores the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world politics and is required reading for students, NGO activists, and policy-makers"--