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100 1 _aLENZ Tobias
700 _aSCHMIDTKE Henning
245 _aAgents, audiences and peers:
_bwhy international organizations diversify their legitimation discourse/
_cTobias Lenz and Henning Schmidtke
260 _c2023
520 _aThis article offers the first comprehensive analysis of what we term normative diversity in IOs' discursive legitimation by drawing on a novel dataset on norm-based justifications in more than 32,000 paragraphs of text published by 28 regional IOs between 1980 and 2019. We show that IOs vary strikingly in this respect: whereas some IOs invoke a narrow set of norms, often focused on economic welfare and functional capability, others engage a wide variety that includes security, national sovereignty, democracy or human rights.
650 _aLEGITIMATION DISCOURSE
650 _aINTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
773 _aInternational Affairs:
_gSeptember 2023, Vol.99, No.5, pp.921-940
598 _aSTRATEGY
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac323
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