Global Norms In Local Contexts
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| Author | : Melissa Schnyder |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 2023-08-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3031411080 |
This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global environmental norms are (re)interpreted by local-level actors and translated to a particular local context. Chapters focus on three in-depth case studies, each involving multi-stakeholder environmental governance: (1) the Cerbère-Banyuls Marine Nature Reserve, (2) the Thau Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG), and (3) the Biovallée biodistrict. In each of these cases, the author assesses how twilight norms are used to frame, promote, and generally develop a local discourse that centers on environmental conservation and sustainability. By combining concepts from the literature on norm localization with processes from the literature on norm-based institutional change, this Brief will generate new insights on the dynamic aspects of norm translation. As such, it will be of interest to researchers studying environmental politics, comparative policy, governance, and norms.
| Author | : Lisbeth Zimmermann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2017-08-03 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107172047 |
This book argues that global rule-of-law standards in post-conflict states are reshaped in interactive translation processes between external and domestic actors.
| Author | : Tobias Berger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2017-09-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0192535102 |
What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories of norm diffusion and norm localization. It demonstrates how such translations do not follow linear trajectories from 'the global' to 'the local', rather, they unfold in a recursive back and forth movement between different actors located in different context. As norms are translated, their meaning changes; and only if their meaning changes in ways that are intelligible to people within a specific context, the social and political dynamics of this context do change as well. This book analyses translations of 'the rule of law', focusing on contemporary donor-driven projects with non-state courts in rural Bangladesh, and shows how in these projects, global norms change local courts -- but only if they are translated, often in unexpected ways from the perspective of international actors. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book reveals how grassroots level employees of local NGOs significantly alter the meaning of global norms -- for example when they translate secular notions of the rule of law into the language of Islam and Islamic Law -- and only thereby also enhance participatory spaces for marginalized people.
| Author | : Peace A. Medie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0190922966 |
Gender-based violence has been a key target of transnational advocacy networks since the early 1980s, and the United Nations has, in intervening years, passed a series of resolutions to condemn, prevent, investigate, and punish this violence. Member states have committed to implementing this agenda. Yet, despite this buy-in at the global level, implementation at the domestic level remains uneven. Scholars have found that states are more likely to translate global standards into national laws when pressured by women's movements and international organizations. However, a dearth of research on the implementation - at the national and street-levels - of these global gender violence norms hampers an understanding of what happens after states pass laws. In Africa, where most states have not prioritized the prevention of gender-based violence, and the majority of perpetrators act with impunity, there is a major implementation gap. This gap is acute in some post-conflict states on the continent. Thus, despite the presence of laws on various forms of gender-based violence in most African states, justice remains inaccessible to most victims.In this book, Peace A. Medie studies the domestic implementation of international norms by examining how and why two post-conflict states in Africa, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, have responded to rape and domestic violence with varying outcomes. Specifically, she looks at the roles of the United Nations and women's movements in the establishment of specialized criminal justice sector agencies, and the referral of cases for prosecution. Medie's study is based on interviews with over 300 lawmakers, government bureaucrats, staff at the UN and NGOs, police officers, and survivors of domestic violence and rape - an unprecedented depth of research into gender violence norm implementation in post-conflict states. Furthermore, through her interviews with survivors of violence, Medie describes not only how states implement anti-rape and anti-domestic violence norms but also how women experience and are affected by these norms.
| Author | : Lisbeth Zimmermann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2017-08-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1316773140 |
To what extent are global rule-of-law norms, which external actors promote in post-conflict states, localized? Who decides whether global standards or local particularities prevail? This book offers a new approach to the debate about how the dilemma between the diffusion of global norms and their localization is dealt with in global politics. Studying the promotion of children's rights, access to public information, and an international commission against impunity in Guatemala, Lisbeth Zimmermann demonstrates that rule-of-law promotion triggers domestic contestation and thereby changes the approach taken by external actors, and ultimately the manner in which global norms are translated. However, the leeway in local translation is determined by the precision of global norms. Based on an innovative theoretical approach and an in-depth study of rule-of-law translation, Zimmermann argues for a shift in norm promotion from context sensitivity to democratic appropriation, speaking to scholars of international relations, peacebuilding, democratization studies, international law, and political theory.
| Author | : Tobias Berger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0198807864 |
This book examines the interaction between global norms and local contexts, from global norms about 'the rule of law' from the desks of development experts in Brussels to villages in rural Bangladesh, and what happens to 'the rule of law'.
| Author | : Carmen Wunderlich |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2019-10-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030279901 |
This book investigates whether so-called rogue states – assumed antagonists of a Western-liberal world order – could also act as norm entrepreneurs by championing the genesis and evolution of global norms. The author explores this issue by analyzing the arms control policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A comparison with the prototypical norm entrepreneur Sweden and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea – a notorious norm-breaker – reveals interesting insights for norm research: Apparently, norm entrepreneurship manifests itself in different degrees and phases of the norm life cycle. The finding that Iran indeed acts as a norm entrepreneur in some cases also sheds light on those factors that might account for the success or failure of norm advocacy. Lastly, the book offers a new perspective on “rogue states”, by not only regarding them as irrational antagonists of the current world order, but also as legitimate participants in a discourse on what the ruling order should look like. This book will appeal to scholars interested in critical norm research in international relations. “This book offers cutting-edge norm research, highlighting how norm-breakers can function as norm-makers." Maria Rost Rublee, Associate Professor of International Relations, Monash University (Australia) “So-called ‘rogue states’ are typically understood as norm breakers, but Carmen Wunderlich makes a persuasive conceptual case backed by empirical research that we need to consider the extent to which they are in fact norm entrepreneurs in their own right. In an era characterized by much concern over the status of liberal norms, this is a very timely study.” Richard Price, Department of Political Science, The University of British Columbia (Canada) "At a time when the world order is under pressure, this cutting-edge analysis of how dissatisfied states challenge existing global norms illuminates a topic crucial to understanding contemporary international relations." Nina Tannenwald, Director, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University (Rhode Island USA)
| Author | : Stephen Hopgood |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2017-08-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107193354 |
With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy.
| Author | : Anne Crowley-Vigneau |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2022-02-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030948625 |
This book explores the domestic adoption and implementation of international norms. The study of normative outcomes is expanded beyond traditional studies of value conflicts and localization to explore how transnational networks and local content policies affect an international norm’s chances of reaching compliance on the ground. Empirical research from two case studies devoted to world class universities and the flaring of Associated Petroleum gas in Russia illustrate how the involvement of ‘Transnational Expertise and Experience Networks’ increases the chances norm implementation will be successful. This book shows how networks help to adapt international norms to a local context by raising awareness and motivation levels, sharing best practices and past experience of implementation. It will be relevant to students, researchers and policymakers interested in international relations and economic transition.
| Author | : Dwi Ardhanariswari Sundrijo |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2020-10-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030547981 |
This book explains how the ASEAN regional human rights body (AICHR) was created and why it functioned with a promotional rather than protection mandate. It does this by positioning itself within a sizable literature on norm diffusion, and introduces the concept of “Norm Interpreters” to explain what happens when global human rights norms are adopted/adapted within a local context, particularly highlighting the role of a group of individuals in the process. In this respect it adds to the International Relations literature on norm diffusion and the Southeast Asian region specific literature on ASEAN regionalism and AICHR.
