Our paper titled "International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates: A speaker-topic network analysis" is out now in Journal of European Public Policy!
Out now: The paper on speaker position, topic introduction, and topic evolution of the UN Secretariat in UNSC debates!
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The paper is open access! This link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2021.1998194 takes you to the publisher's website.
Summary¶
The paper studies the role of the UN Secretariat in UNSC debates investigating speaker position, topic introduction, and topic evolution. Our methods allow to study the role of speakers in a debate and show that the UN bureaucracy acted as an autonomous speechmaker even in a venue were bureaucratic agency seems unlikely – the UNSC.
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