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N°30 - October 2009
Administrative Reform in International Organizations : The Case of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, by Olivier Nay

This paper focuses on the causal factors, implementation, and side effects of administrative reforms launched within the United Nations system, in the field of HIV and AIDS. It is based on an empirical analysis of the UNAIDS Programme, an interorganizational system bringing together ten UN agencies to combat the worldwide epidemic, with the support of a Secretariat. Firstly, the paper argues that the administrative reform of UNAIDS was unlikely to have come from the UN organizations themselves, although the Programme was expected to lead these organizations to better coordinate and harmonize their AIDS strategies. Secondly, it identifi es three external factors that have led UN organizations to reform their governance mechanisms and procedures. Thirdly, it explores the conditions under which the reform of UNAIDS has been implemented since 2005, with particular att ention to the Secretariat that has become involved as an active “reform entrepreneur.” Finally, it identifies some of the unexpected effects of the reform, with a particular emphasison competition between UN agencies, organizational complexity, and bureaucratization. The concluding remarks argue that when analyzing administrative reforms within international organizations, one should investigate the interrelations between the external pressures that drive reforms and the activity of reform entrepreneurs.

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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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