Multilateral negotiations are often critiqued for not sufficiently addressing issues of justice and for rendering contentious issues ‘technical.’ Such a view is problematic as it limits the voicing of justice claims to explicit utterances and neglects implicit claims. This paper shows that the communicative modalities of multilateral negotiations can lead to situations in which a shift to implicit justice claims is advantageous. The seeming absence of such claims does not necessarily preclude a mostly technical discourse or the absence of issues of justice but can also signify a shift towards a strategically favorable diplomatic register in which normative stances are implied but not made explicit.

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内隐伦理：多边谈判中对文化的规范要求

多边谈判经常受到批评，因为它没有充分解决正义问题以及将有争议的问题“技术化”。这种观点是有问题的，因为它将正义主张的表达限制在明确的话语中，而忽略了隐含的主张。本文表明，多边谈判的交流方式可以导致向隐性正义主张的转变是有利的情况。似乎没有这种主张并不一定排除主要是技术性的讨论或没有正义问题，但也可能意味着转向具有战略意义的外交登记册，其中暗示了规范立场，但没有明确表示。