SEMINAR: Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series 2017

Over 800 international governmental organizations employ thousands of civil servants. Whistleblowers in them confront problems common to their sovereign-level counterparts but also issues uncommon among their nation-state colleagues including a lack of whistleblower policy clarity, contractual uncertainty, and limited judicial access. Drawing upon international civil servants, whistleblowing, and human resources management literatures, a three-factor framework outlines international civil servant whistleblower challenges: dilemmas between loyalty, impartiality and immunity, as well as the desire to hold organizations accountable in a governance system without sufficient checks and balances.