From Norm Contestation to Norm Implementation

Recursivity and the Responsibility to Protect

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ID6188997
AuthorsCecilia Jacob (0000-0002-5775-0641, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume24
Issue3
Pages391-409
Publication date2018-09-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1075-2846 • E-ISSN: 1942-6720
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/19426720-02403006
OpenAlexW2937471564
LanguageEN
Citations received16

This article contributes to the burgeoning norms literature in international relations that conceptualizes the norm life cycle as a nonlinear dynamic process that is open to contestation and change of “meanings in use.” There are limitations to this second generation of norms theory, however, most crucially in the identification of agency and process through which dialogue occurs and change is enacted. This article claims that to conceptualize the move from norm contestation as dialogic process to norm implementation as a process that weaves norms into the fabric of institutions in their day-to-day politics and routine practices, there is a need to bring IR norms theory into a fruitful engagement with sociological theory on lawmaking. Sociolegal approaches account for institutional processes that move toward the firming up of norms even if hard law status is not the formal objective. This article applies a sociolegal framework of the recursivity of lawmaking to better understand the current diversification of responsibility to protect implementation efforts across the UN and at the national level

Epistemology · International law · Law and economics · Lawmaking · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security

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