International Norms and Cycles of Change

Wayne Sandholtz, Kendall W. Stiles (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538008-8 (ISBN)

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This book advances a new theoretical model on norm change in international law and demonstrates and tests the model by examining a series of practical cases. Beyond this, it divides the cases covered between sovereign rules and liberal rules, and argues that considering the whole cycle of norm change has clear advantages over the competing 'legalization' and 'transnational activist' approaches.

International lawyers and international relations scholars recognize that international norms change over time. Practices that were once permissible and even "normal" - like slavery, conquest, and wartime plundering - are now prohibited by international rules. Yet though we acknowledge norm change, we are just beginning to understand how and why international rules develop in the ways that they do. Wayne Sandholtz and Kendall Stiles sketch the primary theoretical perspectives on international norm change, the "legalization" and "transnational activist" approaches, and argue that both are limited by their focus on international rules as outcomes. The authors then present their "cycle theory," in which norm change is continual, a product of the constant interplay among rules, behavior, and disputes. International Norms and Cycles of Change is the natural follow-on to Prohibiting Plunder, testing the cycle theory against ten empirical cases. The cases range from piracy and conquest, to terrorism, slavery, genocide, humanitarian intervention, and the right to democracy. The key finding is that, across long stretches of time and diverse substantive areas, norm change occurs via the cycle dynamic.

International Norms and Cycles of Change further advances the authors' theoretical approach by arguing that international norms have been shaped by two main currents: sovereignty rules and liberal rules. Sovereignty rules are the necessary norms for establishing an international society of sovereign states and deal with the rights, prerogatives, and duties of states. Liberal rules are norms that emerged out of the Enlightenment and enshrine the basic value, dignity, and inherent rights of each person. Sandholtz and Stiles include five cases of sovereignty rules and five of liberal rules in order to reveal the broad cyclic pattern of international change in these two categories of rules.

Wayne Sandholtz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Prohibiting Plunder: How Norms Change (OUP, 2007). Kendall Stiles is a Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University and the author of Case Histories in International Politics, 3rd edition (Addison-Wesley-Longman, 2003).

Chapter 1. Explaining International Norm Change ; Part I: Sovereignty Rules ; Chapter 2. Banning Piracy: The State Monopoly on Military Force ; Chapter 3. The End of Conquest: Consolidating Sovereign Rights ; Chapter 4. Protecting Cultural Treasures in Wartime ; Chapter 5. Terrorism: Reinforcing States' Monopoly on Force ; Chapter 6. Extraterritoriality: Expanding Exclusive Internal Jurisdiction ; Part II: Liberal Rules ; Chapter 7. Slavery: Liberal Norms and Human Rights ; Chapter 8. Genocide ; Chapter 9. Refugees and Asylum ; Chapter 10. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberal Norms vs. Sovereignty Norms ; Chapter 11. The Right to Democracy ; Chapter 12. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2009
Zusatzinfo	tables and figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 236 mm
Gewicht	739 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-538008-8 / 0195380088
ISBN-13	978-0-19-538008-8 / 9780195380088
Zustand	Neuware