Donovan, O (2018) Changing ideas, changing norms: The case of ‘the responsibility to rebuild’. Cooperation and Conflict, 53 (3). pp. 392-410. ISSN 0010-8367
Abstract
Whilst much has been written on emergence of new norms in international politics, we know significantly less about changes to the ideas and assumptions that underpin such norms. Examined at micro-level, most norms consist of a set of ideas and assumptions that form the basis of what is considered as appropriate, legitimate or even the required thing to do. Far from being stable, ideational constitutions of norms can undergo significant changes in the course of the norm emergence process. Enquiring into such changes is important if we are to move beyond static and linear accounts of norm evolution. Using changes in the ideational constitution of the responsibility to protect – specifically, the de-emphasis of the responsibility to rebuild – as its vantage point, the analysis seeks to answer the following question: what drives change in ideational constitutions of international norms? The chief argument advanced in this article is that misalignments at the level of broader normative structures (external misalignments) and within norms (internal misalignments) result in changes in the ideational constitutions of emerging norms.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Cooperation and Conflict. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | emerging norms; normative structures; responsiblity to protect; responsiblity to rebuild |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2018 14:50 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2018 08:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0010836717750203 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:127191 |