ABSTRACT
In the highly complex context of the UN Human Rights Council, there have emerged complex settings of states and interested stakeholders—UN bodies, NGOs, transnational corporations, and private enterprise—that sustain interconnections to reach their priorities. From the perspective of the network theory, actors and relevant stakeholders sustain complex networks by changing multiple centrality measurements during the network adaptation: Adding new nodes, maintaining network cohesion, creating appropriate subgroups, and distributing roles. The structural growth process of the network occurs because the Council’s preventive mandate requires decisions from governments and a broader consensus within international institutions and organizations offers advantages in negotiations. Concerning the social differentiation of world society, the clusterization of complex networks and the emergence of subgroups have insisted that segmentary differentiation is closely intertwined with stratificatory and functional types of differentiation. Finally, the prospective task expansion of an international organization causes the “dual-core adaptation” of complex networks.
