Norm Contestation

Uses norm contestation as a model for understanding variation in norm-related behavior in international relations

Expands understanding of the influence of power and agency in the normative process

Unpacks the idea of intersubjective agreement

Advances the literature on the operation of norms in the global arena

Autorentext

Betcy Jose holds both a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to entering academia, she worked with refugees and those seeking political asylum in the United States. Her academic work builds on her practitioner experience to explore how actors' efforts to shape global norms, including those codified in international law, impact both the content of humanitarian action and its subjects. In this vein, she has explored contestation in the civilian immunity norm prior to its codification in international law (in Montesinos' Legacy: Defining and Defending Human Rights for 500 Years, eds. by Edward C. Lorenz, Dana E. Aspinall, and J. Michael Raley) and contestation over the practice of targeted killing (Not Completely the New Normal: How Human Rights Watch Tried to Suppress the Targeted Killing Norm in Contemporary Security Policy and Bin Laden's Targeted Killing and Emerging Norms in Critical Studies onTerrorism). She is currently exploring whether Russia's actions in Crimea may be avenue in which it contests the humanitarian intervention norm.

Inhalt

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: The Norm Contestation Model.- Chapter Three: Norm Contestation and the Civilian Immunity Norm.- Chapter Four: Norm Contestation and the Norm against Interstate Aggression.- Chapter Five: Conclusion.