Comprehensive Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: An Emerging International Norm?

Kütt, Moritz; Steffek, Jens

doi:10.1080/10736700.2016.1157246

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“…This also challenges the prevalent constructivist perspective that 'a norm … exists independently of the behavior that it guides or regulates'. 90 In contrast, we argue that norms emerge in the context of practices. What kinds of new understandings of appropriateness emerge with the rise of AWS as security technologies in practice?…”

Section: Researching the Normativity Of Awsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Autonomous weapons systems and changing norms in international relations

Bode

Huelss

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are emerging as key technologies of future warfare. So far, academic debate concentrates on the legal-ethical implications of AWS but these do not capture how AWS may shape norms through defining diverging standards of appropriateness in practice. In discussing AWS, the article formulates two critiques on constructivist models of norm emergence: first, constructivist approaches privilege the deliberative over the practical emergence of norms; and second, they overemphasise fundamental norms rather than also accounting for procedural norms, which we introduce in this article. Elaborating on these critiques allows us to respond to a significant gap in research: we examine how standards of procedural appropriateness emerging in the development and usage of AWS often contradict fundamental norms and public legitimacy expectations. Normative content may therefore be shaped procedurally, challenging conventional understandings of how norms are constructed and considered as relevant in International Relations. In this, we outline the contours of a research programme on the relationship of norms and AWS, arguing that AWS can have fundamental normative consequences by setting novel standards of appropriate action in international security policy.

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Section: Researching the Normativity Of Awsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Autonomous weapons systems and changing norms in international relations

Bode

Huelss

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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“…17 For example, see Kütt and Steffek (2015) for the use of content analysis to provide evidence of a norm of the prohibition of nuclear weapons; see Kollman (2008) for content analysis to provide evidence of environmental management system norms; and, for an interesting exchange on whether human rights language in the sustainable development agenda can reflect norms, see Williams and Blaiklock (2016) and Forman, Ooms, and Brolan (2015). 2017).…”

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What Isn't a Norm? Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of “Norms” in the Human Rights Literature

Jurkovich

2019

International Studies Review

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What makes the “norm” a distinct concept? How do norms differ from other aspects of the moral and social fabric of society? In this article I argue that imposing stricter boundaries on the norm concept could have significant analytical payoffs, especially in the human rights literature. Greater conceptual clarity on the boundaries of the norm concept highlights three important distinctions: the difference between norms and moral principles, norms and supererogatory standards, and norms and formal law. Clarifying what a norm is (and, importantly, what it is not) improves our analytic equipment and theories, but the inquiry is not purely a theoretical exercise. Clarifying the norm concept enables us to ask new questions about, and rethink old findings on issues like the role of shaming in human rights advocacy, the origins of norms and challenges to their construction, what constitutes evidence of the existence of a norm, and whether, in fact, all human rights have been translated into norms.

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Reactionary Internationalism: the philosophy of the New Right

Orellana¹,

Michelsen²

2019

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What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the international driven by analytics and critiques of specific subjects, norms and practices, that should be treated as a distinct international theoretical offering. We refer to this vision as Reactionary Internationalism. This article examines and locates this vision within the intellectual history of nationalism and internationalism by drawing on poststructuralist approaches to intellectual history and drawing evidence from a discourse analysis of recent Lega, Front National, Brexit, and Trump campaigns. We find that, rather than advocating for the end of internationalism, the New Right seeks to reconstitute its normative architecture on the basis of inequality among identities. This entails dismantling liberal economic and rights-based norms and reframing them around transactionalism and power grounded on identity. Reactionary Internationalism emerges as a distinct philosophy that identifies a hegemonic normative bind and advocates its unravelling so as to liberate subjects understood as defined by their birth-cultural identity.

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Comprehensive Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: An Emerging International Norm?

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Autonomous weapons systems and changing norms in international relations

Autonomous weapons systems and changing norms in international relations

What Isn't a Norm? Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of “Norms” in the Human Rights Literature

Reactionary Internationalism: the philosophy of the New Right

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