This was a chance to sell the vision, to ask them to be involved in a particular part....and to troubleshoot inevitable misinterpretations around arrangements (PO-09) Following the cluster activation, mobilisation and synthesis was also undertaken by the external broker, according to one FGD: … [cluster facilitator] used to send me five to six mails every day.
Such consultative processes could (i) deliberate on road maps to lessen Lebanon's dependency on external power brokers and (ii) produce research-grounded reflections on how to consolidate the primacy of institutions and cross-communal loyalties over clientelistic ties and exclusionary political projects.
In such a divided polity, sectarian leaders seek the validation of external power-brokers to buttress their leadership.
Power derived from this network position is essential for policy entrepreneurs, as entrepreneurs are typically able to access ideas from external networks, and broker otherwise unconnected actors within their network (Burt 2004; Mintrom and Norman 2009; Valente 2012).
Unlike previous accords, this one was initiated, negotiated, and signed by the parties themselves -- a home-grown reconciliation process without the pressures and mutual suspicions of a process brokered by external powers.
But the US, Israel and other external powers are hardly honest brokers.
The US, Israel and other external powers are hardly honest brokers in Syria, argues Nafeez Ahmed.
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(ii) A comet server, Orbited [47]: this element allows that external applications interact with the messaging broker with HTTP protocol.
A comet server, Orbited [47]: this element allows that external applications interact with the messaging broker with HTTP protocol.
