The Emergence of New Global Institutions: A Discursive Perspective
通过斯德哥尔摩公约案例，研究新话语如何通过行为者的文本创作与旧话语重叠互动，从而催生新的全球监管机构，适合关注制度变迁和话语建构的学者。
We examine how a new discourse shapes the emergence of new global regulatory institutions and, specifically, the roles played by actors and the texts they author during the institution-building process, by investigating a case study of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and its relationship to the new environmental regulatory discourse of ‘precaution’. We show that new discourses do not neatly supplant legacy discourses but, instead, are made to overlap and interact with them through the authorial agency of actors, as a result of which the meanings of both are changed. It is out of this discursive struggle that new institutions emerge.