Scholars of world politics can readily list the global governors of our time, but why and how did these particular actors gain agency in the first place? While there is impressive scholarship on single global governors and their respective impact, there is little comparative work and systematic theorization on what agency in world politics is and how actors gain it. This forum brings together contributions that apply relational frameworks to the question, focusing on the dynamics of self-agentification, delegation, and recognition. Individual contributions detail different empirical cases, from individuals to the G20, and introduce concepts for meso-level theorizing. Taken together, the contributions call for a more dynamic research agenda that not only allows scholars to reconstruct how agency emerges but also pushes us toward an agency-focused reframing of global governance, which is needed to ensure the continued relevance of the paradigm.

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论坛：全球治理者的原因和方式：世界政治中的关系机构

世界政治学者可以很容易地列出我们这个时代的全球治理者，但这些特定行为者为什么以及如何首先获得代理权？虽然关于单一全球治理者及其各自影响的学术研究令人印象深刻，但关于世界政治中的代理机构是什么以及参与者如何获得代理机构的比较研究和系统理论却很少。该论坛汇集了将关系框架应用于问题的贡献，重点关注自我代理、授权和认可的动态。个人贡献详细介绍了从个人到 G20 的不同经验案例，并介绍了中观层面理论化的概念。综合起来，