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Conceptualising interconnections in global governance: the case of refugee protection Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE REFUGEES PROTECTION RESEARCH GOVERNANCE This RSC working paper sets out a new conceptual framework for understanding interconnections based on a structure-agency approach in the context of growing complexity in global governance arrangements. It develops two main concepts: embeddedness and linkages, and explores the relationship between the two and suggests that the embeddedness of issue-areas can be understood through the lens of four principal concepts (regimes, organisations, ideas, and identity). It argues that the ways in which an issue-area is embedded in turn enable and constrain the possibilities for actors to use issue-linkage within bargaining. It suggests that because the way in which issue-areas are embedded may differentially empower different actors, embeddedness can confer a form of institutional or structural power that may either reinforce or offset other forms of relational power in negotiations between actors. In order to highlight the framework's wider applicability, the paper applies it to show how refugee protection is embedded in other issue-areas and the implications this has for negotiations on refugee issues. 2026-09-30T11:45:09Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33353481.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Conceptualising_interconnections_in_global_governance_the_case_of_refugee_protection/33353481 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0