Tom Buitelaar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1583312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Buitelaar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Buitelaar |
| SIGNATURE | BUITELAAR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9089-7573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fragmented Agents and Ambiguous Mandates
s This article proposes a process theory explaining how crises can prompt principal intervention in international organizations (IOs) deadlocked over competing norms. Building on research in norm dynamics, sociological institutionalism, and principal–agent theory, it views IO bureaucracies as arenas where several groups compete over how to order competing norms into a hierarchy. When such conflicts cannot be resolved internally, an exogenous cris…
Leadership Agency in UN Peace Operations
There is a growing interest in the role of individual mission leaders in UN peace operations in peacekeeping studies. However, the concept of ‘agency’ has remained latent in much of this literature. This omission presents a risk of concept stretching and concept ambiguity as scholars continue to explore this topic. In this paper, I analyse the different ways in which the agency of mission leaders has been (implicitly) conceptualized thus far and …
Discourse change in international organizations
How do international organizations (IOs) respond to global normative change and shifting power distributions among their member states? In this article, I argue that the discourse of IOs at the micro-level adapts in imperfect ways to such macro-level changes: discursive shifts will display a compromise between adapting to macro-level pressures and catering to more sticky organizational values. I test this argument by studying how the human rights…
Advocacy and Change in International Organizations
Security and Global Affairs
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies
There is growing scholarly interest in the role of individuals in UN peace operations, but this literature includes very little systematic analysis of how individual characteristics of peacekeeping leaders affect how international interventions are conducted. This paper seeks to fill this gap by building a systematic framework for analyzing the impact of individual characteristics on the behaviour of field-level personnel. I then show the utility…
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court
How do international organisations (IOs) balance norms that have conflicting prescriptions? In this article, we build on the literature on norm contestation and norm conflict to identify four ways in which IOs might respond to norm conflicts: (1) consistent norm prioritisation; (2) ad hoc norm prioritisation; (3) balanced norm reconciliation and (4) imbalanced norm reconciliation. How IOs are more likely to respond, we argue, depends on the salie…
The ICC and the Prevention of Atrocities
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies
There is growing scholarly interest in the role of individuals in UN peace operations, but this literature includes very little systematic analysis of how individual characteristics of peacekeeping leaders affect how international interventions are conducted. This paper seeks to fill this gap by building a systematic framework for analyzing the impact of individual characteristics on the behaviour of field-level personnel. I then show the utility…
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court
How do international organisations (IOs) balance norms that have conflicting prescriptions? In this article, we build on the literature on norm contestation and norm conflict to identify four ways in which IOs might respond to norm conflicts: (1) consistent norm prioritisation; (2) ad hoc norm prioritisation; (3) balanced norm reconciliation and (4) imbalanced norm reconciliation. How IOs are more likely to respond, we argue, depends on the salie…
Discourse change in international organizations
How do international organizations (IOs) respond to global normative change and shifting power distributions among their member states? In this article, I argue that the discourse of IOs at the micro-level adapts in imperfect ways to such macro-level changes: discursive shifts will display a compromise between adapting to macro-level pressures and catering to more sticky organizational values. I test this argument by studying how the human rights…
The ICC and the Prevention of Atrocities
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court
How do international organisations (IOs) balance norms that have conflicting prescriptions? In this article, we build on the literature on norm contestation and norm conflict to identify four ways in which IOs might respond to norm conflicts: (1) consistent norm prioritisation; (2) ad hoc norm prioritisation; (3) balanced norm reconciliation and (4) imbalanced norm reconciliation. How IOs are more likely to respond, we argue, depends on the salie…
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies
There is growing scholarly interest in the role of individuals in UN peace operations, but this literature includes very little systematic analysis of how individual characteristics of peacekeeping leaders affect how international interventions are conducted. This paper seeks to fill this gap by building a systematic framework for analyzing the impact of individual characteristics on the behaviour of field-level personnel. I then show the utility…
Leadership Agency in UN Peace Operations
There is a growing interest in the role of individual mission leaders in UN peace operations in peacekeeping studies. However, the concept of ‘agency’ has remained latent in much of this literature. This omission presents a risk of concept stretching and concept ambiguity as scholars continue to explore this topic. In this paper, I analyse the different ways in which the agency of mission leaders has been (implicitly) conceptualized thus far and …
Discourse change in international organizations
How do international organizations (IOs) respond to global normative change and shifting power distributions among their member states? In this article, I argue that the discourse of IOs at the micro-level adapts in imperfect ways to such macro-level changes: discursive shifts will display a compromise between adapting to macro-level pressures and catering to more sticky organizational values. I test this argument by studying how the human rights…
Advocacy and Change in International Organizations
Security and Global Affairs
Fragmented Agents and Ambiguous Mandates
s This article proposes a process theory explaining how crises can prompt principal intervention in international organizations (IOs) deadlocked over competing norms. Building on research in norm dynamics, sociological institutionalism, and principal–agent theory, it views IO bureaucracies as arenas where several groups compete over how to order competing norms into a hierarchy. When such conflicts cannot be resolved internally, an exogenous cris…
Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Peacekeeping (4 works) · International law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Accountability (2 works)