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  • 3 - International Bureaucracies

  • from Part I - The Building Blocks
  • Edited by Frank Biermann, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Rakhyun E. Kim, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Architectures of Earth System Governance
    Published online:
    17 April 2020
    Print publication:
    07 May 2020, pp 57-74

  • Summary

    A growing literature recognizes treaty secretariats and other international bureaucracies as distinctive actors in global environmental governance. These actors exhibit varying degrees of autonomy, authority and influence on environmental governance processes and outcomes. This chapter reviews recent scholarship on international bureaucracies and highlights the distinct ways in which they exert influence beyond their narrow functional mandates. More specifically, this chapter highlights how international bureaucracies influence governance processes by deriving authority from structural characteristics of the international system, exerting influence from their ability to deliver specific administrative and governance functions and leveraging their organizational autonomy. The chapter outlines empirical and conceptual gaps in our understanding of how international bureaucracies function in global environmental governance, and argues that the dynamics of change in world politics may open new pathways of influence for these actors moving forward.