This work uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the power to redirect the loyalties and expectations of political actors.

Uniting Of Europe: Political, Social, and Economic Forces, 1950-1957 (Contemporary European Politics and Society)

Business & Money

Haas, Ernst B.

Economics

University of Notre Dame Press

This work uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the power to redirect the loyalties and expectations of political actors.

Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ. Of California Pr.

Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeeping, the protection of human rights, and environmentally sound economic development? In this incisive work, Ernst Haas examines these and other issues to delineate the conditions under which organizations change their methods for defining problems. Haas contends that international organizations change most effectively when they are able to redefine the causes underlying the problems to be addressed. He shows that such self-reflection is possible when the expert-generated knowledge about the problems can be made to mesh with the interests of hegemonic coalitions of member governments. But usually efforts to change organizations begin as adaptive practices that owe little to a systematic questioning of past behavior. Often organizations adapt and survive without fully satisfying most of their members, as has been the case with the United Nations since 1970. When Knowledge Is Power is a wide-ranging work that will elicit interest from political scientists, organization theorists, bureaucrats, and students of management and international administration.

When Knowledge is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations (Studies in International Political Economy)

University of California Press

Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeeping, the protection of human rights, and environmentally sound economic development? In this incisive work, Ernst Haas examines these and other issues to delineate the conditions under which organizations change their methods for defining problems. Haas contends that international organizations change most effectively when they are able to redefine the causes underlying the problems to be addressed. He shows that such self-reflection is possible when the expert-generated knowledge about the problems can be made to mesh with the interests of hegemonic coalitions of member governments. But usually efforts to change organizations begin as adaptive practices that owe little to a systematic questioning of past behavior. Often organizations adapt and survive without fully satisfying most of their members, as has been the case with the United Nations since 1970.When Knowledge Is Power is a wide-ranging work that will elicit interest from political scientists, organization theorists, bureaucrats, and students of management and international administration.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. 

When Knowledge Is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations (Studies in International Political Economy) (Volume 22)

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Babai, Don

Williams, Mary Pat

Politics & Government

Far from being an inevitably aggressive and destructive force, nationalism is, for Ernst B. Haas, the primary means of bringing coherence to modernizing societies. In the second volume of his magisterial exploration of this topic, Haas emphasizes the benefits of liberal nationalism, which he deems more progressive than other nation-building formulas because it relies on reason to improve citizens' lives.
The Dismal Fate of New Nations considers several societies that modernized relatively recently, many of them aroused to nationalism by the imperialism of the "old" nation-states. The book probes the different patterns of development in emerging countries―Iran, Egypt, India, Brazil, Mexico, China, Russia, and Ukraine―for insights into the possibilities and limitations of all nationalisms, especially liberal nationalism.
Employing a systematic comparative perspective, Haas organizes the book around the notion of change and its management by political elites in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Haas particularly wants to understand how nationalism plays out in the politics of modernization within non-Western cultures, especially those where religions other than Christianity predominate. Where the hold of religion remains formidable, he argues, the mixture of traditional and secular-modernist institutions and beliefs will challenge the victory of liberal nationalism and the very success of nation-state formation.

Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Dismal Fate of New Nations (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) (VOLUME 2)

Cornell University Press

Why We Still Need the United Nations: The Collective Management of International Conflict, 1945-84 (Policy Papers in International Affairs)

Univ of California Inst of

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Uniting Of Europe: Political, Social, and Economic Forces, 1950-1957 (Contemporary European Politics and Society)

Uniting Of Europe: Political, Social, and Economic Forces, 1950-1957 (Contemporary European Politics and Society)

Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations

When Knowledge is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations (Studies in International Political Economy)

When Knowledge Is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations (Studies in International Political Economy) (Volume 22)

Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations

Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Dismal Fate of New Nations (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) (VOLUME 2)

Why We Still Need the United Nations: The Collective Management of International Conflict, 1945-84 (Policy Papers in International Affairs)