TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dörfler, Thomas
T1  - The effect of expert recommendations on intergovernmental decision-making
BT  - North Korea, Iran, and non-proliferation sanctions in the Security Council
JF  - International relations : the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies
N2  - The article explores whether and to what extent expert recommendations affect decision-making within the Security Council and its North Korea and Iran sanctions regimes. The article first develops a rationalist theoretical argument to show why making many second-stage decisions, such as determining lists of items under export restrictions, subjects Security Council members to repeating coordination situations. Expert recommendations may provide focal point solutions to coordination problems, even when interests diverge and preferences remain stable. Empirically, the article first explores whether expert recommendations affected decision-making on commodity sanctions imposed on North Korea. Council members heavily relied on recommended export trigger lists as focal points, solving a divisive conflict among great powers. Second, the article explores whether expert recommendations affected the designation of sanctions violators in the Iran sanctions regime. Council members designated individuals and entities following expert recommendations as focal points, despite conflicting interests among great powers. The article concludes that expert recommendations are an additional means of influence in Security Council decision-making and seem relevant for second-stage decision-making among great powers in other international organisations.
KW  - decision-making
KW  - expert recommendations
KW  - international organisation
KW  - rationalism
KW  - sanctions
KW  - Security Council
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178211033941
SN  - 0047-1178
SN  - 1741-2862
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SP  - 237
EP  - 261
PB  - Sage
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baehrens, Konstantin
T1  - Introduction to Georg Lukacs: Why Democracies are superior to Autocracies? and The real Germany
JF  - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung
N2  - Two short typescripts by G. Lukacs from the archive, dating from 1941/42, shed light on his appraisal of the cultural 'inner reserves' of Germany and the 'moral reserves' of the democracies involved in the Second World War, as well as on Lukacs's political philosophy at that time. The conception of an intrinsic interrelation of a humanist philosophical anthropology and rationalist epistemology elucidates his egalitarian and democratic account. Both texts are located within the intellectual development of the author in an introduction by the editor, which sketches the historical background and indicates relevant contemporaneous theoretical and political debates, such as the controversies over realism and humanism and also a dispute with K. Jaspers on German collective guilt.
KW  - autocracy
KW  - collective guilt
KW  - democracy
KW  - German classic
KW  - German misery
KW  - humanism
KW  - Jaspers
KW  - Lukacs
KW  - Marxism
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - rationalism
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2015-0019
SN  - 0012-1045
SN  - 2192-1482
VL  - 63
IS  - 2
SP  - 358
EP  - 366
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baehrens, Konstantin
T1  - Einleitung zu Georg Lukács
BT  - Warum sind Demokratien den Autokratien überlegen? und Das wirkliche Deutschland
JF  - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
N2  - Two short typescripts by G. Lukacs from the archive, dating from 1941/42, shed light on his appraisal of the cultural ‘inner reserves’ of Germany and the ‘moral reserves’ of the democracies involved in the Second World War, as well as on Lukacs’s political philosophy at that time. The conception of an intrinsic interrelation of a humanist philosophical anthropology and rationalist epistemology elucidates his egalitarian and democratic account. Both texts are located within the intellectual development of the author in an introduction by the editor, which sketches the historical background and indicates relevant contemporaneous theoretical and political debates, such as the controversies over realism and humanism and also a dispute with K. Jaspers on German collective guilt.
KW  - autocracy
KW  - collective guilt
KW  - democracy
KW  - German classic
KW  - German misery
KW  - humanism
KW  - Jaspers
KW  - Lukacs
KW  - Marxism
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - rationalism
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2015-0019
SN  - 2192-1482
SN  - 0012-1045
VL  - 63
IS  - 2
SP  - 358
EP  - 366
ER  -