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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"igos"”.
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Who Participates? International Organizations and Non-State Actors in Global Governance
Although all Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) interact with non-state actors (NSAs) in some capacity, the extent to which NSAs are granted participatory roles in the governance of IGOs varies substantially. Why do some intergovernmental organizations - intergovernmental clubs of sovereign …
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Fraud and corruption in the international governmental organisation: identifying the extent to which the investigation function of oversight offices in international organisations may be considered as a policing function and assessing the mechanisms for accountability thereof
Intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) such as the United Nations have long endured the same types of misconduct common to other employers, including fraud, corruption and mismanagement, exemplified by the seemingly ubiquitous Oil for Food programme. This thesis examines those bodies set up as a …
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Welcome to the Club: IGO Socialization and Dyadic Arms Transfers
… whether intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) can socialize member states by testing the effect of shared IGO memberships on dyadic arms transfers. IGO socialization is one of many proposed causal mechanisms by which IGO memberships might reduce interstate conflict. This thesis argues …
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An Exploration of State and Non-State Actor Engagement in Informal Settlement Governance in the Mahwa Aser Neighborhood and Sana'a City, Yemen
… and international governmental organizations (IGOs) to address their many basic needs. The analysis draws on personal interviews with key stakeholders, including long-time residents of Mahwa Aser, responsible government officials, and relevant leaders of NGOs, INGOs, and IGOs in Yemen, U.S.A., …
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Promoting Gender Equality Through Gender-responsive Public Procurement
… the role of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in advancing GRPP, and the barriers and opportunities for WOBs in public procurement systems. Using a mixed-methods approach, including literature reviews, semi-structured interviews, and case studies, the thesis identifies systemic challenges …
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Three to tango: explaining expansion of militarized interstate disputes
… the same international government organizations (IGOs). This project posits that a potential joiner is constrained in its decision to join an ongoing dispute by its position in network spaces of rivalries, international trade, and IGO affiliations. The hypotheses are tested using data on potential …
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Analysis and performance evaluation of coordinated transaction scheduling
… and the economics of the two interconnected IGOs, as well as their interactions. We provide an analytical underpinning of the procedural steps of CTS, all the while taking considerable care to maintain the unshared information confidentiality as the private information of each IGO. We perform …
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An Analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian War
… articles, news outlets, official websites of IGOs, and an interview as my main forms of methodology.</p> <p>This war provides lessons for how a smaller democracy (State A) can maintain its sovereignty and independence from a more-powerful authoritarian neighbor (State B) who has a prior …
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Global Governance of AIDS : Partnerships with Civil Soviety
… and the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) charged with combatting the epidemic. The central argument is that different understandings emerge depending on which theoretical framework the researcher adopts. Söderholm analyzes AIDS governance using three prototypical frameworks: a …
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Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh
… International Governmental Organizations (IGOs), have long been the subject of mostly political science. Secondly, it applies a fuller sociological imagination to the study of IOs by critically exploring one of the largest and most active nature conservation organizations in the world. …
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Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) in Cape Town, South Africa: a descriptive outcomes cohort study
… Guillain-Barré Syndrome Outcome Study (IGOS). A secondary aim, given the high HIV prevalence in South Africa, is to describe and compare GBS participants with and without HIV infection. METHODS Between 1 June 2014 and 31 January 2017, we recruited participants 18 years or older …
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Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: Problems and Possibilities for Political Resolution
The argument that democratic states do not go to war with one another, better known by political scientists and international relations theorists as the democratic peace proposition, remains one of the most difficult to dispute phenomena in state's relations with one another. Immanuel Kant argued …