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@article{Puetz2021,

title = {Meaning structures in the world polity: A semantic network analysis of human rights terminology in the world's peace agreements},

author = {Kyle Puetz and Andrew P. Davis and Alexander B. Kinney},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X21000887},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101598},

issn = {0304-422X},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-12},

urldate = {2021-08-12},

journal = {Poetics},

pages = {101598},

abstract = {We examine changes in the use of human rights language in peace agreement texts from 1990 to 2018. Existing research in world polity theory examines institutional change through the lens of increasing isomorphism, a lens that generally fails to appreciate qualitative transformations in the meaning of institutional concepts across time. As a corrective to this approach, we endorse a meaning-structure institutionalism that conceives institutional concepts in relational terms and use a method of textual analysis — semantic network analysis — to analyze and formally model the shifting meaning of human rights in peace agreement texts. We show that human rights language in peace agreements has undergone multiple qualitative shifts since its initial emergence in the mid-1980s. Specifically, the term human rights occupies a marginal position in peace agreement texts in the 1990s, is used in reference to and thus bridges multiple substantive themes in the 2000s, and, finally, inhabits a conceptual silo in the 2010s in the sense that it is associated with many concepts within but no concepts outside of a semantic community related to rights and democracy. We discuss implications for world polity theories of institutionalism that follow from our relational framework.},

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@article{Wei2020,

title = {Analyzing the topic distribution and evolution of foreign relations from parliamentary debates: A framework and case study},

author = {Wei Lu and Jiamin Wang and Jiming Hu},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102191},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-05-01},

urldate = {2020-05-01},

journal = {Information Processing & Management},

volume = {55},

number = {3},

abstract = {Parliamentary texts are records of discussions of domestic and international affairs, which reflect national attitudes and development trends in foreign relations. In this paper, a research framework is proposed to analyze foreign relations on the basis of parliamentary texts. First, topic words are extracted from parliamentary texts, and then a co-word network is constructed to represent the correlation structure of topic words. The basic statistics, calculation of network indicators, community detection, and visualization of network maps and evolution venation, as well as the depiction of a strategic diagram, elucidate deeper characteristics and connotations of foreign relations. This case study on UK-China relations during the period of 2011-2017 using British parliamentary texts reveals the following findings. Over this period, UK-China relations changed in terms of the topics involved, topics which are greatly unbalanced in distribution, but are quite concentrated. Five different directions exist, centering on Trade, Human rights, Nuclear, Steel, and Visa. The evolution of topics includes merging and differentiation. A minority of topics exhibit marked continuity, which constitute the main focal points discussed each year, such as Economy and Trade. Regarding development trends, themes related to trade and steel remain focal points in UK-China relations. Overall, the framework proposed in this paper is proven to be both effective and feasible, and its application through this case study can foster a deeper understanding of the status and development of UK-China relations.},

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