Why are IGOs
opening?
Approach
Assessing the Opening of IGOs
Making Sense of Norm Based Explanation
next steps
Thank
You !
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Tobias Weise
Bremen University
http://globalnorms.uni-bremen.de
Opening:
transparency & participation
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Three dimensions of IGO openness
talk
decision
action

perspectives on discoursive practices, formal decisions, and informal practices of IGO opening
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Opening:
process of institutional change

i.e. explaining why organizations change

RC / sociological / historical
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Opening:
decision, talk, action of two kinds of actors:
state representatives
IGO administrations

each with different sets of reasons for opening the IGO
looking at the empirics
opening of international security organizations
building medium n dataset for qualitative comparative research