52 research outputs found
Reconstructing World Politics: Norms, Discourse, and Community
This Article argues that the conventional (rationalist) approach to world politics characterized by political bargain cannot fully capture the new social reality under the contemporary global ambience where ideational factors such as ideas, values, culture, and norms have become more salient and influential not only in explaining but also in prescribing state behaviors. After bringing rationalism’s paradigmatic limitations into relief, the Article offers a sociological framework that highlights a reflective, intersubjective communication among states and consequent norm-building process. Under this new paradigm, one can understand an international organization as a “community” (Gemeinschaft), not as a mere contractual instrument of its contracting parties (Gesellschaft). The Article applies the new paradigm to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as it describes the WTO’s institutional evolution from a power-oriented, tariff-reducing contract to a norm-oriented world trade community
The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Architecture of International Cooperation: Transgovernmental Networks and the Future of International Law
Transnational Civil Society Coalitions and the World Bank: Lessons From Project and Policy Influence Campaigns
Learning for the Future: Transnational Civil Society Actors as Contributors to Social Learning in Transnational Problem Domains
Towards a Field of Transnational Studies and a Sociological Transnationalism Research Program
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