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193826
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Established as a multilateral development bank (MDB) funded by African states, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of many similar international organizations (IO s) comprising the development finance regime complex. Arguably, states and policy elites recreate similar IO s that enable “norm conformance” within the complex. This is demonstrated through the AfDB’s adoption of the Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM) in 2004. Despite no need or demand, the relatively insulated AfDB agreed to provide recourse for people adversely affected by AfDB-financed projects. This article argues that consensus among state and nonstate actors around an accountability policy norm led the AfDB to conform. Nonregional Member States, particularly the United States, used typical norm diffusion mechanisms: financial incentives, normative suasion, and voting on the AfDB’s Board. The concept of norm conformance highlights how behavioral expectations and organizational practices change based on what is socially appropriate.
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193825
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The transnational rise of city networks is increasingly associated with the emergence of hybrid configurations beyond the public sector that contribute to technocratic decisionmaking processes and the depoliticization of global governance. This article takes issue with this argument. By analyzing the legitimation strategy used by the global city network United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) vis-à-vis the UN system, the article contends that city networks can generate collective agency and frame political issues as a matter of public accountability. The cities gathered under UCLG, a “public membership” city network, are offering their political constitution to the multilateral system, thus complementing rather than replacing the political agency of state-centric processes. Yet the state-centric nature of the international system is also the main obstacle on the (winding) road of UCLG toward multilateral recognition.
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193824
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Little is known about the role social media can play in support of peacekeeping missions, especially in times of crisis. Looking at the use of Facebook by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, this article reconstructs social media practices of a peacekeeping mission in a global crisis. To assess how UNMISS used Facebook, it first connects research on discursive legitimation efforts by international organizations with work on strategic communication. Second, it provides a content analysis on Facebook posts published by UNMISS between 2018 and 2022 to determine how the mission engaged with its audience, how it framed its engagement, what topics were being addressed, and how the Covid-19 pandemic changed these communication patterns. Results show a conscious “propaganda for peace” strategy of the peacekeeping mission as UNMISS framed itself as a positive force for the peace process, using tailored communication strategies that rarely engaged in two-way communication, even in times of crisis.
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193827
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This article investigates the institutional collaboration between the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on the Dushanbe-Uzbekistan Border Road Improvement Project in Tajikistan. It argues that AIIB’s adoption of the EBRD’s environmental and social safeguard norms and project management norms facilitates the provision of infrastructure-related public goods in Tajikistan in three ways. First, the harmonization between the governance norms of these two banks facilitates their cofinancing which fills the financing gap of the project. Second, the policy coherence enables the two institutions to implement environmental and social safeguard norms that the Tajikistan government is unable to fully practice. Third, it paves the way for the transfer of project management experience from the EBRD to AIIB. Through this learning process, AIIB is able to provide additional infrastructure-related public goods in Tajikistan by acting as an independent provider of project monitoring services.
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193823
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During the twenty-five years I had the privilege of serving in the United Nations, I came—like so many others—to regard the UN as one of our century’s most remarkable institutions.
The UN has defined and shaped multilateral action in ways that were unimaginable before its creation. Its track record in the management of relationships between UN Member States is particularly impressive. During its nearly eighty years as a global institution, the UN has been far more successful at facilitating relations between great powers, channeling and accommodating the expectations of emerging and regional powers, accompanying nations as they become new states, and stabilizing fragile states than it is generally given credit.
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