Discover the fascinating world of norm research, a crucial subfield of IR, which reveals how ideas and norms influence the actions of nations and other players. The interpretation-contestation framework is introduced as an innovative means to understand the progression and evolution of norms across both domestic and international levels.
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of norms, exploring their emergence, change and legitimacy on both domestic and international levels. This in-depth volume presents the interpretation-contestation framework, positioning it as the primary theoretical mechanism for understanding norms. Leading scholars spanning diverse sub-fields and epistemological perspectives investigate the crucial aspects of norm development including norm strength, collision and conflict; interaction and linkages; and the illumination of historical norm development through contestation. 'Contesting the World' offers a fresh perspective on norms research, focusing on ideas, social facts, norm adaptation, and the shift towards viewing norms as processes. It is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of norms and their impact on international relations. A fascinating exploration of norms, contestation and the ever-changing world of global politics.
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'[ This] edited volume expands the conceptual and analytical toolbox of norm students in exciting ways.' Lucrecia García Iommi, International Affairs
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Introduces an interpretation-contestation framework for comprehending the emergence, transformation, and legitimacy of international norms.
1. Introduction: norm research in theory and practice Phil Orchard and
Antje Wiener; Part I. Norm Strength, Collisions, and Conflicts:
2.
Rethinking norm change: content and strength in norm development Michal
Ben-Josef Hirsch and Jennifer M. Dixon;
3. Understanding and resolving norm
conflict Anchalee Rüland and Jennifer Welsh;
4. Norm research on conflictive
norm relations: how norms collide in times of complexity, contestation, and
crisis Andrea Liese; Part II. Development of the Field:
5. A brief history of
norms about race Audie Klotz;
6. Emotion and norms in international shaming
practices Halima Akhrif and Simon Koschut;
7. Advancing rights through an
accountability norm? The case of multilateral development banks Susan Park;
8. Beyond appropriateness: a typology of norm-based behaviour in world
politics Sassan Gholiagha and Mitja Sienknecht; Part III. Meta-theorising,
Linkages, and International Law:
9. A systems approach to norms theory Carla
Winston;
10. The interaction of law and politics in norm implementation
Anette Stimmer;
11. International lawyers, legal norms and contestations of
legal validity Jakob v. H. Holtermann, Mikael Rask Madsen and Nora Stappert;
Part IV. Dimensions of Norm Contestation:
12. Of norms and networks:
theorising the vital link between norm contestation and network globalisation
Jacqui True;
13. Regulatory contestation and the creation of transnational
legal orders Cecilia Jacob;
14. Norms, normativity and pragmatist
justification: advancing the third move in norm research Jason Ralph;
15.
Social in practice, contested in principle: future norm research Antje Wiener
and Phil Orchard.
Phil Orchard is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Wollongong and the Co-Director of the UOW Future of Rights Centre. His books include Protecting the Internally Displaced: Rhetoric and Reality and A Right to Flee: Refugees, States, and the Construction of International Cooperation, which won the 2016 International Studies Association Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section Distinguished Book Award. He is the co-editor, with Alexander Betts, of Implementation in World Politics: How Norms Change Practice (2014), with Charles Hunt, of Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Contestation and Consolidation (2020). Antje Wiener holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg. Before coming to Hamburg she held Chairs in International Studies at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Bath. With James Tully she is co-founding editor of Global Constitutionalism published with CUP since 2012, and she edits the Norm Research in International Relations Series with Springer. Her book Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations with CUP (2018) was awarded the International Law Section's Book Prize in 2020. Other books include A Theory of Contestation (Springer 2014) and The Invisible Constitution of Politics: Contested Norms and International Encounters (CUP 2008). She is an elected By-Fellow of Hughes Hall University of Cambridge since 2017, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2011, and a Member of the Academia Europea since 2020.
