An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the African Group's Participation in Global Multi-lateral Environmental Negotiations
As the influence of the Global South in the international system becomes in-creasingly evident,assessing the strategies and performance of developing country groups in international negotiations holds growing significance for understanding the role of emerging powers in global governance.Focusing on the African Group in global multilateral environ-mental agreement negotiations,the author investigates how issue-specific power,internal cohesion,and interest convergence jointly shape the negotiation effectiveness of negotiating groups.Through a comparative analysis of the African Group's behavior in the negotiations of the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD),the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC),and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertifica-tion(UNCCD),it can be observed that the three factors influence the negotiation effec-tiveness in different ways and to varying degrees:issue-specific power largely determines the negotiation space and strategy choices;internal cohesion influences the realization of collective advantages;and interest convergence reflects the ease of gaining external sup-port,which is key to securing a favorable negotiating position.Moreover,in negotiating groups with strong issue-specific power,the constraining effect of interest convergence on negotiation effectiveness is relatively limited.Clarifying the factors influencing the negotia-tion effectiveness of developing country groups in multilateral negotiations not only provides new perspectives for negotiating group theory and practice but also offers valuable insights for Global South countries to enhance their voice and rule-making capacity in global govern-ance.
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