International Relations theorists have recently paid increasing attention to the hierarchical nature of international society, that is, to its built-in structural inequalities. In this article, we focus on one thus far neglected aspect of global social stratification by highlighting the role that international institutions play in both reproducing and transforming inequalities among states and other global subjects. We argue that this focus on institutions can advance our understanding of the processes through which global inequalities are maintained and changed, and that institutionalist research can in turn benefit from shifting its attention from the predominant cooperation paradigm to capturing the manifold ‘inequality’ effects of institutionalised interactions in world politics. We illustrate this shift of perspective with a dual case study of the Ottawa and Oslo Conventions banning anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions.

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(Un)使全球不平等：分层国际社会中的国际机构

国际关系理论家最近越来越关注国际社会的等级性质，即其内在的结构性不平等。在本文中，我们通过强调国际机构在再现和改变国家和其他全球主体之间的不平等方面所发挥的作用，来关注迄今为止被忽视的全球社会分层的一个方面。我们认为，这种对制度的关注可以增进我们对维持和改变全球不平等的过程的理解，而且制度主义研究反过来可以受益于将注意力从主要合作范式转移到捕捉制度化的多种“不平等”影响。世界政治中的互动。