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Role of Small Islands in UN Climate Negotiations: A Constructivist Viewpoint

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This article is about small island developing states (SIDS) and their role in the United Nations (UN) climate negotiations. It presents a discussion about how a constructivist model of foreign policy analysis and international system design can be used to explain the impact of climate ideas of SIDS on UN climate system. The SIDS have been in the UN climate negotiations since the 1980s, committed to a climate agenda with clear ideas about the challenges they face and the type of solutions they seek from the international policy community. In this respect, this article seeks to explain that climate ideas shared among SIDS have established an intersubjective understanding to promote a compelling common voice at international climate negotiations, which is based on an island vulnerability identity. These ideas have shaped the policy thinking and interests of climate negotiators to design institutional frameworks that have given special consideration to SIDS. It concludes that this observation represents a disproportionate impact of SIDS. Despite the weak material powers for being small islands, their climate agenda has influenced the UN system design to address their concerns.

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  • Athaulla A. Rasheed, 2019. "Role of Small Islands in UN Climate Negotiations: A Constructivist Viewpoint," International Studies, , vol. 56(4), pages 215-235, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:intstu:v:56:y:2019:i:4:p:215-235
    DOI: 10.1177/0020881719861503
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