Professorship for International Institutions and Peace Processes
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Current events
New Publications
The Link between
Contestation and Norm Robustness
New book on international norm disputes
published at Oxford University Press
International norms, institutions, and
the international order itself are increasingly under challenge in virtually
every policy area – from human rights and global health, through trade and
climate change, to arms control and international peace and security law. International
relations scholars have begun to study the effects of norm contestation,
backlash against institutions and courts, and the broader crisis of the liberal
international order. Whether contestation weakens or even strengthens international
norms has inspired a lively debate in international relations and international
law. Does contestation always intrinsically weaken norms, or is contestation
itself a normative force that reinforces norms in their validity through
continuous actualization?
In their newly released volume “International Norm Disputes: The Link
between Contestation and Norm Robustness " Lisbeth Zimmermann, Nicole Deitelhoff, Max Lesch, Antonio Arcudi, and Anton Peez explore how the dispute over
international norms affects their validity. The book compares four contemporary
cases of contested norms – the torture prohibition, the responsibility to
protect, the moratorium on commercial whaling, and the duty to prosecute institutionalized
in the International Criminal Court – and two historical cases – privateering
and the transatlantic slave trade.
The book is the result of the project “Norm Disputes: Contestation and NormRobustness", which is funded by the German Research Foundation
(DFG).
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