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Global Conference Diplomacy and International Policy‐Making: The Case of UN‐Sponsored World Conferences *
Author(s) -
RIITBERGER VOLKER
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1983.tb00054.x
Subject(s) - diplomacy , negotiation , political science , action (physics) , public administration , sociology , law , politics , physics , quantum mechanics
The article purports, first, to review briefly the evolution of conference diplomacy from the age of the Congress of Vienna until the era of the United Nations. Building upon this historical evidence, it attempts then to outline the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of research on conference diplomacy in general, and on global conference diplomacy as represented by UN‐sponsored world conferences in particular. The bulk of the article is devoted to an analysis of the ‘typical’ unfolding of conference processes, moving through the four stages of initiation, preparation, negotiation for decision‐making, and implementation. Here, the article seeks to demonstrate the analytical usefulness, if not necessity, of distinguishing between two major types of world conferences: action‐orientated and rule‐making conferences.