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N°33 - September 2010
Policy Transfer and Bureaucratic Influence in the United Nations. The case of AIDS, by Olivier Nay

This paper focuses on the circulation of policy ideas within the United Nations (UN) system. Based upon a study of UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, it shows how international bureaucracies can capitalize on policy-oriented information and knowledge to strengthen their autonomy and consolidate their authority within their own environment. Using a policy transfer approach as its analytical framework, the paper draws particular attention to the UNAIDS Secretariat, considered as a “transfer entrepreneur.” It argues that in the 2000s, the Secretariat has demonstrated a capacity to collect, develop and disseminate policy ideas on the epidemic and, consequently, has gradually participated in UN policy development. It thus suggests that the Secretariat has extended its authority within the UN system despite a restricted mandate and low resources. In conclusion, the paper points out the need to examine policy transfer among international organizations through actors, interests, and strategies, as a complement to holistic approaches.

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2010

N°33 - September 2010
Policy Transfer and Bureaucratic Influence in the United Nations. The case of AIDS, by Olivier Nay
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N°32 - June 2010
Les usages pratiques du patriotisme en Russie, by Françoise Daucé, Myriam Désert, Marlène Laruelle,
Anne Le Huérou, Kathy Rousselet
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N°31 - April 2010
Marché, bureaucratie, formes de la domination politique. Une économie politique weberienne, by François Bafoil
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2009

N°30 - October 2009
Administrative Reform in International Organizations : The Case of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,
by Olivier Nay
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N°29 - August 2009
La langue amère des temps nouveaux : dynamique de la violence au Rwanda rural (1991-1994), by Emmanuel Viret
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N°28 - May2009
Le parcours du combattant : une approche biographique des militant(e)s sikh(e)s du Khalistan , by Laurent Gayer
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2008

N°27 - December 2008
L'analyse des transferts internationaux de politiques publiques : un état de l'art, by Thierry Delpeuch
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N°26 - October 2008
Politiques du moment colonial. Historicités indigènes et rapports vernaculaires au politique en "situation coloniale", by Romain Bertrand
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N°25 - June 2008
En quoi les "partis ethniques" sont-ils "ethniques" ? Les trajectoires du MDL en Bulgarie et de l’UDMR en Roumanie, by Antonela Capelle-Pogacean and Nadège Ragaru
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N°24 - March 2008
Le concept de situation thermidorienne : régimes néo-révolutionnaires et libéralisation économique,
by Jean-François Bayart
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2007

N°23 - December 2007
L’analyse de la "rivalité" dans les relations internationales. Le cas de l’Inde et de la Chine, by Renaud Egreteau
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N°22 - October 2007
Le Sangh Parivar et la diaspora hindoue en Occident : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis et Canada, by Christophe Jaffrelot and Ingrid Therwath
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N°21 - September 2007
L’invention de l’aide française au développement. Discours, instruments et pratiques d’une dynamique hégémonique, by Julien Meimon
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N°20 - April 2007
Sovereignties, the World Conference against Racism 2001 and the Formation of a Dalit Human Rights Campaign, by Dag Erik Berg
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2006

N°19 - December 2006
Viewing the “New” South Africa. Representations of South Africa in Television Commercials: an Experiment in Non-directive Methods, by Rehana Ebrahim-Vally and Denis-Constant Martin
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N°18 - June 2006
Les sciences sociales et le "moment colonial" : de la problématique de la domination coloniale à celle de l’hégémonie impériale, by Romain Bertand
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N°17 - May 2006
Le débat russe sur l’informel, by Myriam Désert
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2005

N°16 - December 2005
"Qui a le bâton, a le buffle". Le corporatisme économique de l'armée pakistanaise, by Amélie Blom
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N°15 - October 2005
Solving Europe’s Binary Human Rights Puzzle. The Interaction between Supranational Courts as a Parameter of European Governance, by Laurent Scheeck
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N°14 - June 2005
Les analyses de l'engagement associatif en Russie, by Françoise Daucé
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N°13 - February 2005
"Shadow States" ? State building and national invention under external constraint in Kosovo and East Timor (1974-2002) - Raphaël Pouyé
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2004

N°12 - December 2004
Russian Foreign Policy Discourse during the Kosovo Crisis : Internal Struggles and the Political Imaginaire, by Guillaume Colin
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N°11 - January 2004
Religion and Politics in Greece : The Greek Church’s ‘Conservative Modernization’ in the 1990s, by Anastassios Anastassiadis
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2003

N°10 - June 2003
For a theory of nationalism, by Christophe Jaffrelot
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N°9 - May 2003
Le voleur et la matrice : Les enjeux du "cybernationalisme" et du "hacktivisme", by Laurent Gayer
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N°8 - February 2003
Les marchés de la vertu : la promesse des fonds éthiques et des micro-crédits, by Javier Santiso
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2002

N°7 - September 2002
Analyser le massacre. Réflexions comparatives, by Jacques Sémelin
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N°6 - June 2002
Analyser les modes de représentation des intérêts dans l'Union européenne : construction d'une problématique, by Sabine Saurugger
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N°5 - February 2002
Les relations civilo-militaires en Croatie, 1990-2001, by Renéo Lukic and Jean-François Morel
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N°4 - January 2002
New Perspectives on EU-Member State Relationships, by Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne
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2001

N°3 - November 2001
The Adjudication of Ethnic Claims by John Crowley
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N°2 - November 2001
Politics Behind The Mask: Studying Contemporary Carnivals in Political Perspective, Theoretical and Methodological Suggestions, by Denis- Constant Martin
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N°1 - November 2001
"Injustes" sanctions : les constructions internationales de la dénonciation des embargos et l'escalade de la vertu abolitionniste, by Ariel Colonomos
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