Age power politics in global governance: youth impact on global environmental politics
(2024) 17th European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference on International Relations — Location: Lille (28.August.2024)
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Duque, Juan Felipe 
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- Global politics are dominated by senior professionals, a trend that transcends all domains of global politics. While race, gender and class have been used as new variables to explore power politics in global governance, age has not, so far, being studied to the same extent. In order to fill this gap, our paper centers on youth and their impact on global environmental negotiations. On the basis of the thematic coding of interviews conducted with about 200 youth participating to the climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development goals negotiations at the global level, and observations of these processes, we categorize their impact on the policy process. Our choice to center our analysis on environmental issues is based on a best-case scenario choice: youth have been recently particularly vocal in that field, and we therefore expect them to have substantial impact on the negotiations. To further the analysis, we distinguish procedural impact, that is impact on the negotiations’ texts; from normative impact, that is impact on much deeper negotiation dynamics. Moreover, we discuss the impact that youth have on the negotiations, as well as the impact the negotiations have on youth. Overall, the contribution helps explore the role of youth within international society and suggests ways in which youth might be similar, or different, from other actors within such society. It enables us to reflect on age power politics at the global level, and on what they mean for the effectiveness and legitimacy of such governance.
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Orsini, A., & Duque, J. F. (2024). Age power politics in global governance: youth impact on global environmental politics. 17th European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Lille. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243923