Political Instrumentalism and Epistemic Communities in Global Governance a Network Analysis of the International Organization for Migration
研究了国际组织如何利用专家网络在政治化政策领域（如移民健康）中发挥影响力，提出“政治工具主义”作为专家知识的第三种功能，并以国际移民组织为例进行网络分析。
ABSTRACT Global governance systems, including international organizations (IOs), turn to academic experts to achieve a variety of policy‐related outcomes. Existing scholarship offers valuable insights into the two main functions of expertise for international organizations–instrumental and symbolic. I draw on network analysis to propose a third function–political instrumentalism–where IOs use experts' degree of connectedness to other actors to exert influence in politicized areas of policymaking and in domestic contexts in which they are less well‐networked. To this end, IOs foster epistemic communities through networks that have the characteristics of small‐world and scale‐free networks. I illustrate this with a descriptive network analysis of the International Organization for Migration's work in migrant health. Analyzing data from IOM documentation (2016–2022), I find that IOM fosters a complex (small world and scale‐free) network through an epistemic community in which academics and researchers hold powerful positions. These positions in the network can help to serve political instrumental purposes to expand IOM's influence and visibility in domestic environments in a highly politicized area of policymaking–migrant health.