Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy

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ID6431030
AuthorsNina Hall (0000-0002-6318-9029, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center), Nina Reiners (0000-0003-3251-0470, University of Oslo), Soumita Basu (0000-0001-5499-6673, South Asian University), Suparna Chaudhry (0000-0003-3506-7590, Lewis & Clark College), Laura A Henry (0000-0001-7112-7568, Bowdoin College), Laura Henry (0000-0002-2531-620X, Bowdoin College), Peace A Medie (0000-0003-0727-6205, University of Bristol), Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom (0000-0003-0056-9646, University of British Columbia), Andrea Vilán (0000-0003-0968-0893, American University), Kelebogile Zvobgo (0000-0001-8701-8016, William & Mary)
Year2025
Volume27
Issue3
Publication date2025-07-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/isr/viaf015
OpenAlexW4412161175
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited108

Transnational advocacy scholarship has illustrated the power of activist networks in overturning Cold War logics; facilitating disarmament and weapons control; tackling climate change; and promoting human rights. Since the 1990s, scholars have demonstrated that non-state actors can shape international outcomes, including through boycotts, persuasion, and information politics. Given the rich research agenda that these scholars set out, what have we learned in the last 20 years? And how can transnational advocacy scholarship help us understand larger trends in international relations? This forum brings together leading scholars of transnational advocacy to unpack the key debates in three areas: 1) external challenges, especially shrinking civic space worldwide; 2) internal challenges to transnational advocacy networks; and 3) the challenges and opportunities afforded by implementing international norms and international law at the domestic level. The forum brings together nine authors who have studied advocacy in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Bolivia, Guatemala, United States, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and a host of other countries across a wide range of issue areas. These scholars use a range of methods from qualitative to quantitative studies of advocacy. Collectively we illustrate how transnational advocacy matters for IR and chart a future research agenda

China · Disarmament · Human rights · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · International Development and Aid · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Law · Public Administration

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