1st Edition

Deliberation in International Institutions Analysing Deliberative Dynamics in the International Maritime Organization

By Seebal Aboudounya Copyright 2025
234 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book studies the deliberative dynamics in the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations’ specialised agency for regulating international shipping. The importance of international shipping becomes clear when we realise that almost everything is transported through this mode of transportation; indeed 90% of world trade is carried by those vessels we call ships. The study... Read more

1. The Theory of Deliberative Democracy and International Institutions: Theory, hypotheses and methods

2.  The ideational context of deliberation: common lifeworld in the IMO              

3. The institutional context of deliberation: deliberative design of the IMO          

4. Democracy in the IMO: Access, Equality, and Inclusion in the meetings          

5. The Discourse Quality Index and its amended version          

6. Regression analysis results on the determinants of deliberative quality              

7. ‘Relational’ deliberation & deliberative dynamics 

Conclusion           

Annex A: The codebook: Instructions for coding using the amended DQI              

Bibliography       

Biography

Seebal Aboudounya completed her PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is currently an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in International Public Policy and Environmental Politics at University College London (UCL). Prior to joining UCL’s Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, Dr Seebal Aboudounya worked as a Fellow in the International Relations Department at the LSE.