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Whose Norms Matter?

2025· book-chapter· en· W4417469866 on OpenAlexaff
Devon Cantwell-Chavez

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTransboundary Water Resource Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlobal governanceEnvironmental governanceCorporate governancePoliticsIndigenousGlobal warmingClimate governanceInternational relationsGlobal South

Abstract

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Abstract International Relations (IR) generally treats environmental issues like climate change as case studies to illustrate political phenomena such as conflict, cooperation in global governance, and migration. Yet, given how biodiversity, ecosystems, and habitability shape international political and social relations, environmental issues deserve to be core topics in their own right. In like manner, IR scholars and IR policy elites tend to relegate Global South perspectives, concerns, and ideas to the margins of the discipline and global governance institutions (GGIs). Countries in the Global North—which have disproportionately contributed to the climate crisis—paradoxically lead GGIs and are thus centred in scholarship, including within norms research in IR (NRIR). This chapter traces the construction of global environmental governance norms, for whom these norms have been constructed, and the consequences of scholars and practitioners maintaining a narrow focus on governance centred on the present day. In examining ‘whose norms matter?’ in the global environmental governance space, this chapter argues that scholars can—and must—engage in new patterns of socialization within the field, moving climate change to the fore and bringing perspectives of Global South and Indigenous peoples from the margins to the centre. In so doing, scholars can challenge historical constructions of norms within IR and develop deeper understandings of norms that are better adapted to explain past, present, and future global challenges.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.974
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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