Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly

Seabra, Pedro; Mesquita, Rafael

doi:10.1093/isq/sqac008

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“…For our purposes, an analysis of voting patterns was not feasible, as the partnership resolution was never passed for voting since formal consensus was reached at the committee level. Reaching consensus at the committee level is typical in the UNGA, where only 20 to 30 per cent of resolutions move to a vote, and resolutions regarding development are usually not voted on (Seabra & Mesquita, 2022). Therefore, instead of conducting voting analysis, we carried out a sponsorship analysis and a qualitative analysis of oral interventions that were made during the resolution processes.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond

Nilsson,

Fougère

2024

J Bus Ethics

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In this article, we analyse the global consensus on the UN’s partnership approach to businesses through an agonistic lens. In doing so, we seek to understand the positioning of states, particularly those in the Global South, towards the partnership approach. We draw on Mouffe’s conceptualisation of ‘the political’, in which the appearance of consensus is always an expression of hegemony accompanied by exclusion and dissensus. First, we show that the partnership approach was initially promoted by the Global North, in particular European states together with UN leadership, against fears and criticism raised by Global South states. Second, we show that Global South states have not fundamentally challenged the idea of engaging in partnerships with businesses, but they have questioned how these partnerships should be designed to shape a more equally beneficial global economy. With this article, we contribute to the literature on the UN and business ethics by identifying how the evolution of the consensus on business partnerships has been a hegemonic arrangement since the 2000s. Furthermore, we illustrate the role that states have had in forming this consensus. We also contribute to business ethics studies engaging with dissensus by problematising the potential of ‘agonistic deliberation’ at the UN level in supporting the interests of the Global South.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond

Nilsson,

Fougère

2024

J Bus Ethics

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“…For this article, we used the 'UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset' (SEABRA and MESQUITA, 2022). This dataset encompasses the sponsorship behavior of all 193…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Of all the information provided by the 'UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset', we highlight the 'priority' and 'ownership' indices. As defined by Seabra and Mesquita (2022), the priority index refers to the timing of each country's endorsement for each…”

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confidence: 99%

Access, Technology, and Transition: Mapping the Themes of the Debate on Energy at the United Nations General Assembly (2000-2020),

Feitosa,

Mesquita

2023

Bras. political sci. rev.

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How are the subjects of energy and energy justice discussed within multilateral forums? Given the significance of this subject and the disparities among nations, examining how energy-related matters are addressed in intergovernmental arenas reveals how governments manage the implications of inequalities in basic needs, such as energy. To investigate the phenomenon, we monitored how the seven categories identified in the literature -'Efficiency', 'Access to Energy', 'Renewable Energies', 'Capacity Building', 'Research and Development', 'Technology Transfer', and 'Financing' -were evoked in multilateral discussions. Specifically, we used the 'UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset' to identify, through content analysis, 59 draft resolutions that mentioned these energy themes between 2000 and 2020. We analyzed this corpus and detailed the themes, their combination, and the most involved countries. Through cluster analysis and correspondence analysis, we identified three major groups of themes, 'Access to energy', 'Technology' and 'Energy Transition', while 'Capacity Building' appeared as a cross-cutting issue. We also identified that large multilateral groups were an important factor driving engagement with the topic, as G77 members, and specially those pertaining to Central and South Asia, were among the most active players.

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“…Analyses of roll-call votes partake in a common limitation. As explained by Seabra and Mesquita (2022), data on UNGA votes suffer from sampling bias, given that only 1/3 of resolutions are subject to a vote, and certain controversial topics are disproportionately present. Hence, blocs based on votes might outline the opposing factions regarding disarmament, or Palestinian self-determination, but they will not detect communities whose unifying interests lie elsewhere.…”

Section: Coalitions At Unga: Empirical Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Eurasian Bloc? Characterizing the Activity of Former Soviet and Turkic Countries at the Un General Assembly

Monteiro,

Santana,

Mesquita

2023

REI

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Soviet countries were the most cohesive bloc in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) during the bipolar era, after which the East-West cleavage was replaced by a North-South division. Hence, the Soviet space fell out of the attention of UN research in the post-Cold War era. However, this North-South polarization arises mainly from voting analyses that ignore other interstate activities at the UN. An analysis of sponsorship patterns of draft resolutions from the last decade, in contrast, reveals alternative groups, including a cluster with former Soviet, Eastern European, and Turkish-speaking countries, suggesting some unity among Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In light of such evidence, this exploratory paper uses data on UNGA sponsorship between 2009 and 2019 to descriptively characterize this newfound coalition of Eurasian countries, probing what their pattern of UNGA activity is and what topics bind them together as a group.

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Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond

Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond

Access, Technology, and Transition: Mapping the Themes of the Debate on Energy at the United Nations General Assembly (2000-2020),

A New Eurasian Bloc? Characterizing the Activity of Former Soviet and Turkic Countries at the Un General Assembly

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