The United Nations “Common System” of Salary, Allowance, and Benefits: A Critical Appraisal of Coordination in Personnel Matters

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodor Meron
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Common System ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Common ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

The salary, allowance, and benefits system common in its broad lines to the United Nations and to a number of specialized agencies (the “common system”) has its origin in the relationship agreements concluded between the UN and the agencies concerned in pursuance of Articles 57 and 63 of the UN Charter. Some of these agreements were made nearly twenty years ago, a long period in the life of rapidly growing and rapidly changing international organizations. A critical examination of the present-day validity of the common system and its justification today in light of the reality of the international organization may be timely. In the present article such an examination of this major facet of administrative and budgetary coordination of the UN with the specialized agencies is attempted.

The Attribution Decision Adopted by the opcw’s Conference of States Parties and Its Legality

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 664-681
Author(s):  
Alexander Orakhelashvili
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
Chemical Weapons Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

This contribution examines the legal merit of the Decision Addressing the Treat from Chemical Weapons, adopted by the 89th Session of the General Conference of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (‘opcw’) on 27 July 2018. While relating to matters of high political importance, this Decision still raises important issues of the constitutionality of international organizations’ use of their delegated powers. This contribution pursues the detail of this matter, by focusing, among others, on the scope of the opcw’s authority under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the relationship between the opcw and the United Nations.

The Politics of Human Rights Diplomacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 097359842094343
Author(s):  
Anupama Ghosal ◽  
Sreeja Pal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Precise Formulation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

The issue of Human Rights features as a prominent agenda of the United Nations and its related international organizations. However, when it comes to precise formulation of a country’s foreign policy in bilateral or multilateral forums, the issues of trade and national security find priority over pressing human rights violations occurring within the countries engaged in the diplomatic dialogue. An often-employed reason behind such an approach is the need to respect sovereignty and non-interference of a country in diplomacy. This article aims at analysing the potential which diplomacy holds to pressurize recalcitrant regimes to respect human rights. In doing so, the article tries to explore the ambit of Human Rights Diplomacy and the relationship between agenda of politics and human rights.

Deriving Data from Delegates to International Assemblies: A Research Note

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Karan Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Research Note ◽  
International Organization ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

Whether it is called an assembly, a conference, or something else, there is in most if not all international organizations an organ, for which the United Nations General Assembly is the prototype, in which the entire membership is represented. The importance of these bodies is generally acknowledged. Constitutionally, they usually have final authority in such matters as the appointment of the executive officer, the election of smaller organs, the adoption of the budget, and the determination of overall policy. Few studies of an international organization or of the interaction between a state or a group of states and an international organization can neglect the assembly of the organization under scrutiny.

Causal mechanisms in civil war mediation: Evidence from Syria

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-235
Author(s):  
Magnus Lundgren
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Member State ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Arab League ◽  
The United Nations

Studies of conflict management by international organizations have demonstrated correlations between institutional characteristics and outcomes, but questions remain as to whether these correlations have causal properties. To examine how institutional characteristics condition the nature of international organization interventions, I examine mediation and ceasefire monitoring by the Arab League and the United Nations during the first phase of the Syrian civil war (2011–2012). Using micro-evidence sourced from unique interview material, day-to-day fatality statistics, and international organization documentation, I detail causal pathways from organizational characteristics, via intervention strategies, to intervention outcomes. I find that both international organizations relied on comparable intervention strategies. While mediating, they counseled on the costs of conflict, provided coordination points, and managed the bargaining context so as to sideline spoilers and generate leverage. While monitoring, they verified violent events, engaged in reassurance patrols, and brokered local truces. The execution of these strategies was conditioned on organizational capabilities and member state preferences in ways that help explain both variation in short-term conflict abatement and the long-term failure of both international organizations. In contrast to the Arab League, the United Nations intervention, supported by more expansive resources and expertise, temporarily shifted conflict parties away from a violent equilibrium. Both organizations ultimately failed as disunity among international organization member state principals cut interventions short and reduced the credibility of international organization mediators.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF WOMEN AS MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY FORCES (Indonesian Women's Security Forces Recruitment Process)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Fenny Wulandari ◽  
Abdul Azis
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
World Order ◽  
International Organization ◽  
International Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The United Nations

International organizations are formed by an agreement in which three or more countries are parties, or also called intergovernmental organizations because their members are state. The state as a party to the international organization must accept the obligations arising from the agreement. Countries incorporated in an international organization usually have the same interests and goals. Even in some difficulties and to help progress the member countries of the international organization did not hesitate to provide assistance. International organizations such as the United Nations have the aim of maintaining international peace and security. The establishment of the United Nations (UN) was set against the concerns of mankind for international peace and security based on the experience of the First World War and the Second World War. Indonesia's commitment to participate in carrying out world order based on independence, lasting peace and social justice is the mandate of paragraph IV of the Opening of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. This commitment is always realized through Indonesia's active participation and contribution in the UN Mission of Maintenance and Peace. In the international context, participation is an important and concrete indicator of the role of a country in contributing to maintaining international peace and security.

Some Notes on the United Nations Secretariat

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter R. Crocker
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The United Nations

Readers of this periodical will have been struck with the quantity and the variety of international bodies existing today. Whatever else may be lacking in international organization there is no lack of international organizations.

The Mexican Indian: Image and Identity

1964 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-536
Author(s):  
Alicja Iwanska
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Economic Interdependence ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rapid Diffusion ◽  
The United Nations

In spite of the growing economic interdependence among contemporary nations, the rapid diffusion of knowledge among contemporary peoples about each other, and the existence of the United Nations, our times are characterized far more by flourishing of nationalism than by emerging internationalism. In fact, we have been experiencing the decline of universalistic thinking rather than its emergence. Great international organizations like the United Nations or the Common Market operate pragmatically rather than ideologically. We not only note with surprise the striking absence of new universalistic ideologies in those new international organizations, but we also observe rapid decline of the previously established universalistic ideologies like Catholicism and Marxism. Marxism began as, and remained for some time, truly international ideology.

scholarly journals Gestion de la décroissance et reproduction institutionnelle à I'ONUDI

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-532
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Holly
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Adaptive Process ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between environmental changes and the reform process at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The basic question it seeks to answer is : how does an organization self-produce in conditions of intense environmental change ? International organizations, while carrying out their mission, are constantly called upon to take notice of changes in their environment and to make accordingly whatever adjustment is required. This adaptive process serves two main purposes : first, to facilitate the pursuit and attainment of the objectives of the organization and, second, to help the organization self-produce, for international organizations like any other social System self-produce through the action it exercises on it self. The reform process undertaken at UNIDO beginning in the late 80s clearly bears out that contention. It sheds light on the conditions and difficulties that surround the undergoing reform process at the United nations.

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