From logics to procedures: arguing within international environmental negotiations
(2013) Critical Policy Studies — Vol. 7, n° 3, p. 273-291 (2013)
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- Mainstream literature in international relations understands negotiations in terms of power politics and/or bargaining processes between rival national interests to account for states’ negotiating stands. Using definitions and questions initially defined by Thomas Risse, this study of processes at work in the biodiversity regime underlines instead their deliberative dimension and its contribution to positive negotiation outcomes. However, the article also challenges the dominant understanding of deliberation in global environmental politics that focuses on the participation of non-governmental organizations and other interest groups in the ‘public space’. Instead it identifies deliberative elements in the negotiation process proper, stressing in particular the importance of the relationships developed between governmental delegations through series of closed meetings of selected participants. This contribution uses for illustration the negotiations leading to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization.
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Orsini, A., & Compagnon, D. (2013). From logics to procedures: arguing within international environmental negotiations. Critical Policy Studies, 7(3), 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2012.752970 (Original work published 2013)