Following the analytical framework, the chapter analyses the changing
national political arenas in the Brazilian, Chinese, and Russian
contexts. It addresses the question of how QAE has changed the roles of
national and international actors in policymaking. It uses interviews
with representatives of international and national organisations and
with individual actors as empirical material and document analysis as
background material. It concludes that enhanced data infrastructure and
expertise, along with other resources, have made national governments
less dependent on international organisations but at the same time more
interested in and interlinked with international trends.