ROLES OF INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: A CRITICAL GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
LIU Xiao-feng1, Raymond Yu WANG2, GE Yue-jing1
1. Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
2. Center for Chinese Public Administration Research, School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Abstract:International non-governmental organizations (INGOs), as a typical non-state actor, play an increasingly crucial role in global environmental political issues despite that sovereign state remains the most important force in contemporary international society. Against the backdrop of the "Belt and Road Initiative", moreover, the activities and advocacies of INGOs may substantially influence the outcomes and processes of Chinese enterprises' oversea infrastructure construction projects. This paper argues that the roles and strategies of INGOs should be included in the agenda of geopolitical studies. Following this line of inquiry, this paper integrates key geopolitical concepts of scale and power and provides a useful framework for analyzing INGOs. It first reviews the development and basic characteristics of critical geopolitical research and emphasizes that examining the role of INGOs could improve our understanding of the decision-making mechanism of international public affairs, which could also contribute to the literature on critical geopolitics. Then, this paper points out the limitation of state-centrism as well as the emerging influence of INGOs in addressing global environmental issues. Next, this paper illustrates the main strategies of INGOs by unpacking their roles in three spatial scales (i.e., global, national and local) and three power dimensions (i.e., decisional power, discursive power and regulatory power) in the field of global environment politics. Last but not least, the paper pictures INGOs' relationships with governmental and other non-governmental actors.
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