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International Organizations through a Discursive Lens: Challenges, Contributions and Emerging Issues

Governance
International Relations
UN
Political Sociology
Global
Communication
P212
Marion Laurence
Royal Military College of Canada
Audrey Alejandro
The London School of Economics & Political Science
Audrey Alejandro
The London School of Economics & Political Science

Abstract

In addition to being actors in their own right, international organizations are discursive sites where meanings are negotiated in interaction, and interfaces through which representations circulate across the world. They normalize and legitimize competing discourses, which represent and benefit different types of actors. Scholars studying IOs have increasingly used the lens of discourse to examine these dynamics, but analytical frameworks to study discourse in relation to institutions have mainly been developed based on national contexts. This panel will explore how engagement with discourse contributes to the study of IOs, and whether such endeavours require specific ‘international’ adaptation.

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