Who Cares About the UN General Assembly? National Delegations Size from 1993 to 2016
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F23%3A10453820" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/23:10453820 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=eI2TG3PSMy" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=eI2TG3PSMy</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13190" target="_blank" >10.1111/1758-5899.13190</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Who Cares About the UN General Assembly? National Delegations Size from 1993 to 2016
Original language description
The UN General Assembly is the central forum of world politics. While it formally allows the member states to delegate up to five representatives, the size of the national delegations is generally larger and significantly increases over time. In this paper, I explore the size of the national delegations to the General Assembly from 1993 to 2016. Generally, the major powers (USA, Russia) send the biggest delegations. Surprisingly, China sends significantly smaller delegations than it used to before 2008. Big delegations are also sent by some small (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland) or developing countries (Nigeria, Bangladesh). My analysis shows that national capacities and issues-specific motivations drive up the delegation size. Although issue-specific explanations are relatively rare in UN-related research (due to the general-purpose nature of the organization), I argue that human rights, international security, economic development, and UN governance are the agendas for which states care about the General Assembly.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Global Policy
ISSN
1758-5880
e-ISSN
1758-5899
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
349-360
UT code for WoS article
000952921400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150709470