Special Issue: Resourcing International Organizations

The contributions to this special issue highlight critical issues in the study of Resourcing International Organizations (IOs), including resource diversification, the complexity of related actor constellations, and organizational differentiation that goes hand in hand with resource diversification. The findings documented in the contributions reveal how IOs seek to obtain and allocate funds, and how resourcing-related concerns pervade their organizations. It also illustrates the value-added of an approach to the study of IOs that hones in on their administrations, their capacity for strategic action and their inter-connectedness, in short, an ‘administrative governance perspective’. The central message is that IO resourcing matters both practically and analytically.

Special Issue Articles

Klaus H. Goetz and Ronny Patz - Resourcing International Organizations: Resource Diversification, Organizational Differentiation, and Administrative Governance

Erin R. Graham - Follow the Money: How Trends in Financing Are Changing Governance at International Organizations

Andreas Bergmann and Sandro Fuchs - Accounting Standards for Complex Resources of International Organizations

Stephen Browne - Vertical Funds: New Forms of Multilateralism

Karolin Seitz and Jens Martens - Philanthrolateralism: Private Funding and Corporate Influence in the United Nations

Eugénia Heldt and Henning Schmidtke - Measuring the Empowerment of International Organizations: The Evolution of Financial and Staff Capabilities

Theresa Squatrito - Resourcing Global Justice: The Resource Management Design of International Courts

Jörn Ege and Michael W. Bauer - How Financial Resources Affect the Autonomy of International Public Administrations

Bernhard Reinsberg -Trust Funds as a Lever of Influence at International Development Organizations

Klaus Hüfner - The Financial Crisis of UNESCO after 2011: Political Reactions and Organizational Consequences

Steffen Eckhard and Hylke Dijkstra - Contested Implementation: The Unilateral Influence of Member States on Peacebuilding Policy in Kosovo

Katharina Michaelowa - Resourcing International Organisations: So What?