Civil Society at the United Nations Through the Lens of Organizational Sociology: Exclusion and Temporariness

Abstract Studying the inclusion of civil society in international organizations has grown last decade. This article repatriates ongoing scholarly discussions this within organizational sociology to answer what nature is as an organization at United Nations. With “temporary organizations” it proposes a relational perspective whereby society’s temporariness induces mechanisms exclusion and vice-versa. In practice actors counter by holding on their autonomy.