Multilateralism of the Marginal
Least Developed Countries and International Climate Negotiations, 1995-2016
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Gray (0000-0002-6826-6521, Columbia University), Jean-Philippe Cointet (0000-0002-3172-3960, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 796-855 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/727753 |
| OpenAlex | W4386594840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 156 |
Multilateral deliberations are important sites for structuring political relations between countries from the Global North and the Global South. While outcomes of deliberations often reaffirm relations of hegemony and dependence, recent studies demonstrate that marginal actors sometimes leverage international rules and norms to thwart dominant political rationales. Using summary reports of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings from 1995 to 2016, the authors leverage computational techniques to examine shifts in national delegates’ positionality and policy preoccupations in these negotiations. After talks briefly collapsed in 2009, traditionally weak nations emerged as subtle but influential players in setting the international climate agenda. The authors claim this surprising outcome is possible because marginal actors cultivated a specific style of deliberation that the authors call “persuading from the periphery.” Building from textual traces, the authors identify a repertoire of relational and discursive strategies these countries use to reconfigure the social and symbolic structure of negotiations
Economics · International economics · International trade · Multilateralism · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Climate Change Policy and Economics · International Development and Aid · Law
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State
Climate agreement-making across negotiation and non-negotiation spaces
International cooperation in times of polycrisis
Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation
From global target to numerical myth
Embodied activism, interculturality, and environmental justice in the Global South
How domestic political context shapes the topics in UNFCCC conference of the parties decisions, 1995–2023
The social life of climate projects
Against the planetary
Time and Climate Change
The Anatomy of Regime Change
America's Global Advantage
Greening the Globe
Conversational Style
Power
The Road to Paris
Lexical shifts, substantive changes, and continuity in State of the Union discourse, 1790–2014
From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk
Economic Growth and Climate Change
Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
How Actors Change Institutions
Probabilistic topic models
Habermas and the public sphere
Rules for the World
Partisan Publics
Reassembling the Social
NGOs, Ingos, and Environmental Policy Reform, 1970–2010
Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks
Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change
Global democracy and earth system governance
Global environmental agreement-making
Abductive Logic of Inquiry for Quantitative Research in the Digital Age
Local variation in world society
Conference Diplomacy
Hierarchy in practice
History of the 2 ° C climate target
A history of the 1.5°C target
Recognition and liquid authority
World society and the natural environment
Which Countries Send More Delegates to Climate Change Conferences? Analysis of UNFCCC COPs, 1995–2015
The European Union as a global climate leader
Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations
The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures
Order out of Chaos
The Worst of Friends
Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations
Striving for No
No Talk, Some Walk
The Green Climate Fund as an effective compensatory mechanism in global climate negotiations
The Jungle Grows Back
Restructuring neoliberalism at the World Health Organization
Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance
Civil Society in an Age of Environmental Accountability
Assessing the European Union’s global climate change leadership
Vulnerability, good governance, or donor interests? The allocation of aid for climate change adaptation
Re‐articulating the Third World coalition
Defeating Kyoto
The World Health Organization between North and South
Identifying policy frames through semantic network analysis
Lessons from public administration for global governance
Ambition and Differentiation in the 2015 Paris Agreement
Globalising the climate
Sociology in the Era of Big Data
The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance
Covert Political Conflict in Organizations
Struggles for Recognition
International Pecking Orders
The Politics of Agenda-Building
Voice is Not Enough
Borrowing’ Power to Influence International Negotiations
Text as Data
A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy
The Regime Complex for Climate Change
The EU's role in climate change negotiations
Explaining goal achievement in international negotiations
International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates
Of the contemporary global order, crisis, and change
Powering ideas through expertise
The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870–1990
Clashes in the Assembly
Let's Argue
The new politics of voting alignments in the United Nations General Assembly
Power in practice
Incantatory’ governance
Governing by targets
Power in International Politics
Contemporary Developments in World Culture
Rethinking agency in International Relations
Track-Change Diplomacy
Big Data and historical social science
World Culture in the World Polity
Culture in Action
The Iron Cage Revisited
Conflict and revolt in the name of unity
"No Fracking Way!" Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013
The Public Sphere
Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
Rhetorics of Radicalism
The Politics of World Polity
Political Action and Party Formation in the United States Constitutional Convention
Relating social and symbolic relations in quantitative text analysis. A study of parliamentary discourse in the Weimar Republic
Capturing distinctions while mining text data
Graphing the grammar of motives in National Security Strategies
The UN climate change negotiations and the role of the United States
Making climate governance global
The treadmill of protection
The Sociology of Climate Change as a Sociology of Loss
Emerging powers, North-South relations and global climate politics
The Wall Street Consensus
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |