Embeddedness analysis of a native Chinese NGO participating in international plastic treaty negotiations from the perspective of network institutionalism

Yan Zhao^1,2*Huo Wang^3*Yue Guang Gao⁴

• ¹Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
• ²Department of Politics and Administration, School of International Affairs and Public Administration, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
• ³China biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, beijing, China
• ⁴School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

In the global governance of marine plastic pollution, the "negotiation-driven governance model" of accelerating negotiations is used in order to issue plastics treaties to deal with the problem of plastic pollution including marine plastic pollution while little empirical evidence exists concerning the participation process and strategy of native Chinese NGOs in plastics treaty negotiations. To illustrate the embeddedness strategy that native Chinese NGOs used to attract resources from social individuals and strive for a voice in the "Intergovernmental Negotiation Conference (INC), this research utilized observation method and is grounded in a series of interviews with people associated with native Chinese NGOs in plastics treaties negotiations.In this study, the participation of native Chinese NGOs in the INC series was taken as empirical evidence, and a normative bridging framework which is developed by "embeddedness" combined with network institutionalism theory to analyze how native Chinese NGOs interact with social individuals and in international affairs led by the United Nations, at the same time, network institutionalism analysis, also exists to describe the domestic and international institutional environment of the case native Chinese NGO. This research employs a qualitative case study approach to facilitate an in-depth investigation and detailed understanding of the complex and nuanced development of native Chinese NGOs in plastic treaty negotiations through observation and systematic interviews method. This research empirically contributes to existing network institutionalism theories through the development of a NGO normative bridging framework to illustrate the relationship between native Chinese NGOs, individuals, and international negotiations in world political and international relationship issues.