 International Bureaucracies as Constrained Entrepreneurs: The Budget Crisis of the OSCECornelius Friesendorf and Ronny Patz Global Policy, 2025, vol. 16, issue 5, 874-884 Abstract: International organizations (IOs) with permanent bureaucracies depend on funding and staff. But what do IO bureaucracies do when governments repeatedly fail to adopt a budget? Building on recent debates on IO resourcing and the role of IO bureaucracies in global policymaking, this article argues that international bureaucracies act entrepreneurially during budget crises but that conflict among states places constraints on entrepreneurialism. We explore constrained entrepreneurialism by studying the Organization for Security and Co‐operation in Europe (OSCE), focusing on the period after 2022, when the organization was operating without a regular budget due to the fallout from Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on 80 interviews with OSCE officials and national diplomats, our findings show that while the OSCE bureaucracy engaged in entrepreneurial practices to sustain core operations and mobilize resources, deadlock between Russia and Ukraine's supporters, coupled with the OSCE's strict consensus rule, placed severe constraints on these efforts. Date: 2025 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:glopol:v:16:y:2025:i:5:p:874-884 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Global Policy is currently edited by David Held, Patrick Dunleavy and Eva-Maria Nag More articles in Global Policy from London School of Economics and Political Science Contact information at EDIRC. |
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