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Across the Public-Private Divide in the International Sphere

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Cultural Influences on Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance

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Global public-private partnerships influence our daily lives. They are part of the global governance framework – yet our understanding of them is incomplete. Past research has attributed the existence of these partnerships between state, market and civil society actors variously to the influence of leaders, new management ideas, resource deficits and the proliferation of issues beyond the ability of any single sector to manage. Yet researchers generally focus on the United Nations, and overlook the technical organizations that facilitate a multitude of policy areas between nation-states, their agencies and administrations. This chapter outlines the puzzle drawn from personal experience with such an organization – Interpol, and then briefly outlines the methods employed to analyse the influence of professional culture and organizational culture in technical organizations.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The official name is The International Criminal Police Organization-INTERPOL. The name “INTERPOL” originates from the telegraphic address of the organization and was incorporated into the official name in 1956. For easier reading the telegraphic name is omitted.

  2. 2.

    Telecommunication, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was introduced to English from the French at the 1932 International Telecommunication Union plenipotentiary conference. It first appeared in the documents emanating from this meeting. To avoid confusion it is the broad term employed for all communication technology from this point on. Reference to the various media – telegraph, telephone, telex, radio, television etc. will be made when contextually appropriate.

  3. 3.

    ICCROM is the acronym for the International Centre for Conservation, Rome. The longer ‘International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property’ has always been the official name, but employees there have always referred to it as the Centre, the Rome Centre or ICCROM. The shorter forms – International Centre for Conservation or Rome Centre – shall be used throughout this book.

  4. 4.

    Barriers to membership are often based on factors of geo-politics (e.g. the European Union), economics (e.g. the G20 ) or culture (e.g. Organization of the Islamic Culture). These organizations are often referred to as universal international government organizations. However, for the purposes of this study organizations with 100+ member states have a global characteristic. Universal international government organizations can be significantly smaller (e.g. the International Cotton Advisory Committee).

  5. 5.

    This danger is somewhat mitigated by the author’s experience in both museum and police settings – see preface.

  6. 6.

    The term International Relations is capitalized when referring to the academic study of the interactions between nations and the body of literature associated with this study. In lower case the term refers to the practices carried out between nations (see George 1994, 34).

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Masters, A.B. (2019). Across the Public-Private Divide in the International Sphere. In: Cultural Influences on Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96782-0_1

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