Southern agency in global norms creation
Bangladesh in the SDGs formulation process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11187807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | ASM Ali Ashraf (0000-0002-2782-7812, University of Dhaka, corresponding author), Syeda Rozana Rashid (0000-0003-1826-0583, University of Dhaka) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1793-1812 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436597.2024.2368828 |
| OpenAlex | W4400650599 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This paper examines which institutions, ideas, and interests have shaped the position of Bangladesh in creating the norms of the United Nations (UN)’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bangladesh’s contribution to the SDGs norms creation process is examined in two distinct stages: drafting a position paper (June 2012–June 2013) and participating in UN Open Working Group (OWG) negotiations (March 2013–July 2014). Findings reveal how a small cohort of policy entrepreneurs played a key role in both stages. They gave prominence to ideas such as poverty alleviation, global inequality, and migrants’ rights in structuring the SDGs agenda. In the final round of OWG negotiations, Bangladeshi delegates calculated that active participation in the norms creation process would best serve the interests of the Global South by challenging the Global North which wanted to impose its interests. This paper offers an important insight into the norms literature by showing convergence and divergence of interests and agendas of global and local actors
Agency (philosophy · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Development and Aid · Public Administration
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Bounded Rationality
Governing the Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals
Structure of Decision
Hydropower development along Teesta river basin
Millennium Development Goals
How ideas matter in public policy
Brazil and China going global
The Global South at the UN
From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals
Conflicts Over Water
Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals. A Transformational Agenda for an Insecure World
The Southern origins of sustainable development goals
Emerging powers as normative agents
Idea-shift’
The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015
The Contribution of Commonwealth Armed Forces in UN Peacekeeping
Understanding Beliefs
Diplomacy and domestic politics
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
Of paradigms and power
Process Tracing and Elite Interviewing
How Ideas Spread
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |