Title: Implementation and world politics :
Authors: Betts, Alexander,; Orchard, Phil,
Date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xvii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: A significant amount of International Relations scholarship examines the role of international norms in world politics. Existing work, though, focuses mainly on how these norms emerge and the process by which governments sign and ratify them. In conventional accounts, the story ends there. Yet, this tells us very little about the conditions under which these norms actually make any difference in practice. When do these norms actually change what happens on the ground? In order to address this analytical gap, the book develops an original conceptual framework for understanding the role of implementation in world politics. It applies this framework to explain variation in the impact of a range of people-centred norms relating to humanitarianism, human rights, and development. The book explores how the same international norms can have radically different effects in different national and local contexts, or within particular organizations, and in turn how this variation can have profound effects on people's lives. How do international norms change and adapt at implementation? Which actors and structures matter for shaping whether implementation actually takes place, and on whose terms? And what lessons can we derive from this for both International Relations theory and for international public policy-makers? Collectively, the chapters explore these themes by looking at three different types of norms - treaty norms, principle norms, and policy norms - across policy fields that include refugees, internal displacement, crimes against humanity, the use of mercenaries, humanitarian assistance, aid transparency, civilian protection, and the responsibility to protect.
Contents: Introduction : the normative institutionalization-implementation gap / Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard -- From persecution to deprivation : how refugee norms adapt at implementation / Alexander Betts -- Transnational advocacy and accountability : from declarations of anti-impunity to implementing the Rome Statute / Michael Bluman Schroeder and Alana Tiesmessen -- The unimplemented norm : anti-mercenary law and the problems on institutionalization / Sarah Percy -- International NGOs and the implementation of the norm for need-based humanitarian assistance in Sri Lanka / Urvashi Aneja -- Implementing a global internally displaced persons protection regime / Phil Orchard -- Implementing the "Responsibility to Protect" : catalyzing debate and building capacity / Jennifer M. Welsh -- China as a global norm-shaper : institutionalization and implementation of the responsibility to protect / Brian L. Job and Anastasia Shesterinina -- Peacekeeping in the Congo : implementation of the protection of civilians norm / Emily Paddon -- Engineering policy norm implementation : the World Bank's transparency transformation / Catherine Weaver and Christian Pertsakis -- From principle to policy : the emergence, implementation, and rearticulation of the right to post-conflict property repossession / Miriam J. Anderson -- The implementation of "integrated approaches" in the UN system : lessons from Tanzania and Burundi / James Milner -- Institutionalizing and implementing the disaster relief norm : the League of Red Cross Societies and the International Relief Union / Scott D. Watson -- Status determination and recognition / Anna Schmidt -- Conclusions : norms and the politics of implementation / Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard.
Notes: Papers based on a meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA) held in Montreal in 2011.
Subject headings (LCSH): Disaster relief--Congresses.; History, Modern; Human rights--Congresses.; Humanitarianism.; International relations; International relations--Congresses.; Refugees--Congresses.; Responsibility to protect (International law); Responsibility to protect (International law)--Congresses.; World politics; World politics--Congresses.