A move towards more participation in IGOs? Evidence from argumentative patterns in German diplomacy

A move towards more participation in IGOs?

Evidence from argumentative patterns

in German diplomacy

Thank you!

globalnorms.uni-bremen,de

Interviews

• valuable partners {general; projects; too powerful?}

• functional {expertise; mobilization; consensus building}

• practice of cooperation {common; normal; usual; selective}

• future {more; support; improvements}

• democratic qualities {representation?; legitimate?}

The Issue

• changes in normative prescriptions about good global governance:

new

traditional

states

who

states + non-state actors

how

no coercion

transparent, participative, deliberative, inclusive, ...

• where can we witness these changes?

--> German diplomacy

Main Findings

• NGOs as important partners in global governance

• NGOs as functional tools of state diplomats

• some discussion of NGOs' impact on organizational legitimacy

• diplomats critical about democratic quality of NGOs and their legitimacy

Interpretations

• some elements of new normative expectations present in German diplomacy

yet:

• critical remarks on NGOs' democratic quality and legitimacy

• prevailing functional logic of participation

official documents

• valuable partners {general; projects}

• functional {expertise; mobilization; consensus building}

• practice of cooperation {common; normal; usual}

• future {more; support; improvements}

Tobias Weise

http://globalnorms.uni-bremen.de

Methods

official documents, 20

text corpus

interviews, 6

argumentative patterns

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