TY - JOUR

T1 - Environmental commitments and rhetoric over the Pandemic crisis

T2 - social media and legitimation of the AIIB, the EAEU, and the EU

AU - Hall, Stephen G.F.

AU - Lenz, Tobias

AU - Obydenkova, Anastassia

N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council; by the Basic Research Program of the Higher School of Economics National Research University; and by the Leibniz Association. Stephen G. F. Hall thanks the Economic and Social Research Council for providing funding for this research. Tobias thanks the Leibniz Association for financial support and Lynda Irolou, Niklas Krösche, Swantje Schirmer and Henning Schmidtke for extensive discussions on the theme of this article. Anastassia Obydenkova acknowledges the support of the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). Co-authors are listed alphabetically and they contributed equally to this project. Funding Information: Stephen G. F. Hall thanks the Economic and Social Research Council for providing funding for this research. Tobias thanks the Leibniz Association for financial support and Lynda Irolou, Niklas Krösche, Swantje Schirmer and Henning Schmidtke for extensive discussions on the theme of this article. Anastassia Obydenkova acknowledges the support of the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). Co-authors are listed alphabetically and they contributed equally to this project. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2022/10/1

Y1 - 2022/10/1

N2 - How do international organisations (IOs) legitimise their right to rule in times of a Pandemic? Where are their previously made environmental commitments on their agenda during a crisis? What are the differences in self-legitimation, if any, across different types of IOs? These questions have gathered renewed urgency during the ongoing COVID-19 and climate change crises posing a threat to the legitimacy not only of national governments but also of IOs. The paper aims to address these questions through the analysis of environmental commitments made in legal documents of three IOs (the EU, the EAEU, and the AIIB) and through the analysis of their respective social media between 2017 and 2021. Among other issues, we find significant differences in self-legitimation strategies of these three IOs as reflected by their social media and some evidence of mimicry across these IOs that should remain on the agenda for further studies.

AB - How do international organisations (IOs) legitimise their right to rule in times of a Pandemic? Where are their previously made environmental commitments on their agenda during a crisis? What are the differences in self-legitimation, if any, across different types of IOs? These questions have gathered renewed urgency during the ongoing COVID-19 and climate change crises posing a threat to the legitimacy not only of national governments but also of IOs. The paper aims to address these questions through the analysis of environmental commitments made in legal documents of three IOs (the EU, the EAEU, and the AIIB) and through the analysis of their respective social media between 2017 and 2021. Among other issues, we find significant differences in self-legitimation strategies of these three IOs as reflected by their social media and some evidence of mimicry across these IOs that should remain on the agenda for further studies.

KW - AIIB

KW - COVID-19

KW - EAEU

KW - EU

KW - International organisations

KW - environmental politics

KW - legitimacy

KW - pandemic

KW - self-legitimation

KW - Politics

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/f69b1244-aae0-39dd-bee2-1ed4ff486b5f/

U2 - 10.1080/14631377.2021.1954824

DO - 10.1080/14631377.2021.1954824

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 34

SP - 577

EP - 602

JO - Post-Communist Economies

JF - Post-Communist Economies

SN - 1463-1377

IS - 5

ER -