States have engaged in an intensive process of multilateral treaty making since World War Two despite the fact that few multilateral treaties have fully solved the problems they were designed to address. This inter-disciplinary study of multilateral treaties offers a balanced assessment of the function of multilateral treaties in world politics that draws out the political, as distinct from the legal, meaning of a treaty text. The treaty establishing a regime is regarded as an agreement to set some negotiated limits on pursuit of a common foreign policy goal so that full-blown pursuit of that...
States have engaged in an intensive process of multilateral treaty making since World War Two despite the fact that few multilateral treaties have ful...
Over recent decades International Relations scholars have investigated norm dynamics processes at some length, with the norm entrepreneur concept having become a common reference point in the literature. The focus on norm entrepreneurs has, however, resulted in a bias towards investigating the agents and processes of successful normative change.
This book challenges this inherent bias by explicitly focusing on those who resist normative change - norm antipreneurs . The utility of the norm antipreneur concept is explored through a series of case studies encompassing a range...
Over recent decades International Relations scholars have investigated norm dynamics processes at some length, with the norm entrepreneur concept h...
