29 research outputs found
When norms clash: international norms, domestic practices, and Japan's internalisation of the GATT/WTO
Preferências domésticas e instituições do processo decisório em política econômica externa
Pathways from International Society into National Legislature: Introduction and Co-Sponsorship of Anti-Personnel Landmines Norm in the Republic of Korea
Winning the post-war: norm localisation and small arms control in Kosovo and Cambodia
This article asks how domestic elites contest and localise global norms in contentious post-war
contexts. Engaging with critical norm research, it develops a ‘two-step localisation’ framework in
order to explain how seemingly technical security governance programmes depend on active
congruence making with constitutive state-society narratives – both by international practitioners and
domestic elites. The first step consists of the adaptation that practitioners working in the field make
in order to tune their message to local contexts, and the second step constitutes the locally driven
processes of contestation through narrative construction. The article thus brings in deeply political
negotiations over state-society narratives in order to unpack how local agents contest and reframe
global norms. Applying the two-step localisation framework to a comparative case study of Small
Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Control programmes in Kosovo and Cambodia, the article
illustrates how the relationship between arms and state-society narratives is key to understanding the
outcome of security governance processes