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USUALLY POLICIES ARE ACCOMPANIED BY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT WERE NOT FORESEEN DURING POLICY PLANNING. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES WHAT THIS MEANS AND HAS MEANT IN TERMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER AND NEW WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY.

"When policymakers, communities or advocates make decisions and take actions, they do so with the purpose of achieving some desired goal. But sometimes, unintended consequences occur. These are outcomes that are not the ones intended by the purposeful decision or action. Unintended consequences can be positive or negative, although the discussions often focus on the unexpected adverse impact that may result from well-intentioned policies or public actions. It is tempting to say that unintended consequences happen because we live in an uncertain and unpredictable world, and that there is not much we can do to prevent their occurrence or prepare for them. In fact, many unintended consequences are neither predetermined nor random. It is true that whether or not unintended consequences happen will be affected by many economic and social factors that Singapore is confronted with, but much will also depend on how we approach these factors and the potential consequences. This book, based on the proceedings at the Behavioural Sciences Institute Conference 2017, explores various issues about unintended consequences in Singapore. The book is organised into four parts. Part 1 provides an overview of issues involved in thinking about unintended consequences. Part 2 examines unintended consequences in the context of Singapore's goal to become a smart nation and compares the perspectives between public and private sector organisations on dealing with uncertainty. Part 3 analyses the relationships linking unintended consequences to healthcare outcomes and the management of race relations in Singapore. Part 4 addresses specific questions on unintended consequences in Singapore in terms of the nation's history, immigration, education, meritocracy, civil service culture and mindsets, and relationships between people and government. This book will provide the reader new perspectives and possibilities related to achieving intended societal goals and building a strong Singapore society."--Publisher's website

"Unintended Consequences of International Mediation" published on by Oxford University Press.

After the so called "practice turn" in new institutional studies of organizations a big body of literature was published on how social actors (individuals or organizations) intentionally create institutions. Such actors were called "institutional entrepreneurs" (a controversial term, criticized from many perspectives) or – in the latest proposals – "proto-institution sponsors". The intentional actions of creating, maintaining or disrupting institutions can be theoretically grasped in the concept of institutional work as introduced by Thomas B. Lawrence and Roy Suddaby. In their studies departing from the classical understanding of the notion of institution as shaping and superior to action authors focus on how actions affect institutions. They are particularly interested in analyzing how actors introduce institutions in accordance to their values or interests. This theoretical approach – highlighting the intended institutional arrangements – leaves little room for analysis of institutionalization of practices, technologies or rules which got out of the control of social actors or became institutionalized as an effect of either competitive convergence or collaborative co-creation of actors with various goals, i.e. final arrangements are dissimilar to their initial designs. In the paper I discuss how to implement the problem of unintended consequences into the coherent theoretical framework of institutional work. I propose a typology of unintended consequences of institutional work which comprises of: institutional failures, institutional compromises and institutions under constant reinstitutionalization. ; Mikołaj Pawlak

In Surprise, Surprise, Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon suggest that Richard Falkenrath's criticisms of their The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right has presented a factless tirade. In summing up the main arguments of the text, Falkenrath's assertions are countered. In Falkenrath Replies, Falkenrath calls Benjamin & Simon's response intemperate, arguing that it reinforces his charges that their book's scholarship is poor, its analysis derivative, its assessments unbalanced, & its prescriptions weak. After lamenting their ad hominem attack, Falkenrath address two points of fact that Benjamin & Simon raised about reviews of the book & their allegation that US prosecutors threatened the so-called Lackawanna Six with an enemy combatant designation. J. Zendejas

HAS CHECHNYA REALLY BECOME A 'FRONT IN THE WAR IN TERROR' AS PUTIN REPEATEDLY CLAIMS, OR HAVE 10 YEARS OF RUSSIAN BRUTALITY AND INTRANSIGENCE DRIVEN THIS TINY REPUBLIC INTO THE ARMS OF ITS OWN RADICAL ISLAMISTS?

There is a gap in IR and EU scholarship concerning unintended consequences in an international context, leaving this important phenomenon understudied. To fill this gap, a conceptualisation of unintended consequences is offered, and a set of common research questions are presented, highlighting the nature (what), the causes (why) and the modes of management (how) of unintended consequences of EU external action. The Special Issue contributes to the study of the EU as an international actor by broadening the notion of EU's impact abroad to include the unintended consequences of EU (in)actions and by shedding new light on the conceptual paradigms that explain EU external action.

Unintended consequences for individuals and groups -- Unintended consequences, complex peace operations and peacebuilding systems / Chiyuki Aoi, Cedric de Coning and Ramesh Thakur -- The unintended consequences of peace operations on Timor Leste from a gender perspective / Shukuko Koyama and Henri Myrttinen -- Protecting civilians from UN peacekeepers and humanitarian workers: sexual exploitation and abuse / Vanessa Kent -- Host economies, humanitarian action and civil--military coordination -- The unintended consequences of peace operations on the host economy from a people's perspective / Katarina Ammitzbøll -- The unintended consequences of peace operations on humanitarian action / Shin-wha Lee -- The unintended consequences of civil--military cooperation in peace operations / Stuart Gordon -- Troop-contributing countries -- The unintended consequences of peace operations for troop-contributing countries from West Africa: the case of Ghana / Kwesi Aning -- The unintended consequences of United Nations peace operations for troop-contributing countries from South Asia / C.S.R. Murthy -- The unintended consequences of peace operations for troop-contributing countries in South America: the case of Argentina and Uruguay / Arturo C. Sotomayor -- Accountability -- The accountability of personnel associated with peacekeeping operations / Franoise J. Hampson and Ai Kihara-Hunt -- A beacon of light in the dark? The United Nations' experience with peace operations ombudspersons as illustrated by the ombudsperson institution in Kosovo / Florian F. Hoffmann -- The vicarious responsibility of the United Nations / Frédéric Mégret -- Conclusion: can unintended consequences be prevented, contained and managed? / Chiyuki Aoi, Cedric de Coning and Ramesh Thakur

This paper reviews the edited volume titled The Unintended Consequences of Interregionalism: Effects on Regional Actors, Societies and Structures. The book offers an alternative perspective to studies on interregionalism. Despite not being a new phenomenon, interregional dialogues between regional groups from different parts of the world have resurged since the 1990s, together with many studies trying to define and analyze them. Yet, most of the existing works on the topic adopt a deductive approach, contain a Euro-centric focus, and highlight whether interregional dialogues achieved what they intended. The Unintended Consequences of Interregionalism breaks these norms. It not only approaches the topic inductively but also considers myriad regionalisms. Accordingly, the various regions produce distinct "regionalisms" and, therefore, a plethora of "interregionalisms" exist. The edited volume supplies a unique perspective—one that grapples with the unintended outcomes of interregional interactions.

Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions. The major message is the urgent need to review a range of possible outcomes of human actions. During these fragile times 'looking down the road' has become imperative

Businesses and governments exploit big data without regard for issues of legality, data quality, disparate data meanings, and process quality. This often results in poor decisions, with individuals bearing the greatest risk. The threats harbored by big da