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Explaining international norm change -- Banning piracy : the state monopoly on military force -- The end of conquest : consolidating sovereign rights -- Protecting cultural treasures in wartime -- Terrorism : reinforcing states' monopoly on force -- Extraterritoriality : expanding exclusive internal jurisdiction -- Slavery : liberal norms and human rights -- Genocide -- Refugees and asylum -- Humanitarian intervention : liberal norms vs. sovereignty norms -- The emerging right to democracy -- Cycles of international norm change

Research on international norms has yet to answer satisfactorily some of our own most important questions about the origins of norms and the conditions under which some norms win out over others. The authors argue that international relations (IR) theorists should engage more with research in moral psychology and neuroscience to advance theories of norm emergence and resonance. This Element first provides an overview of six areas of research in neuroscience and moral psychology that hold particular promise for norms theorists and international relations theory more generally. It next surveys existing literature in IR to see how literature from moral psychology is already being put to use, and then recommends a research agenda for norms researchers engaging with this literature. The authors do not believe that this exchange should be a one-way street, however, and they discuss various ways in which the IR literature on norms may be of interest and of use to moral psychologists, and of use to advocacy communities.

In Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss present an innovative analysis of how testing, developing, and using weapons systems with autonomous features shapes ethical and legal norms, arguing that they have already established standards for what counts as meaningful human control.

This work offers a comprehensive and critic approach to international judicial and arbitral case law concerning interpretation of international norms and international institutions as well as to the way the International Court of Justice conceives access to its jurisdiction and its exercise.

This book constitutes an extremely valuable contribution to the field. It significantly adds to the body of literature concerning the motivating factors underpinning the decisions by policy makers to resort to or refrain from the use of armed force. - Howard M. Hensel, Professor, Air War College, USA. This book offers a fresh perspective on timeless questions concerning anarchy and order, power and principle, and public and private morality, by taking a novel approach to the study of the onset of war. Rather than looking at the distribution of wealth, military might, or other material capabilities to explain the onset of war, this book focuses instead on how international norms affect the use of military force. Critical of the realist assumption that international legal norms are unable to curb hostilities without a powerful central authority to enforce their injunctions, it contends that the normative context within which national leaders act sets the tone for world politics by communicating commonly accepted understandings about the limits of permissible action. Using quantitative analyses of the relationships between war initiation norms and various types of armed conflict, the author calls into question realist beliefs regarding international norms, demonstrating that restrictive normative orders reduce the likelihood of war. Gregory A. Raymond is Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Boise State University, USA

Elvira Rosert geht der Frage nach, was normativen Fortschritt im internationalen System ermöglicht und was ihn verhindert. Während die konstruktivistische Normenforschung für den Erfolg von Normsetzungsprozessen zahlreiche Erklärungen bietet, analysiert die Autorin deren Misserfolg. Sie entwickelt eine Theorie der Nicht-Entstehung internationaler Normen und formuliert eine kontraintuitive These: Anders als bisher angenommen, profitieren Normen nicht nur voneinander, sondern blockieren sich gegenseitig. Wie solche Blockadeprozesse vonstatten gehen, erfasst die Autorin mit dem Modell der permissiven Effekte. Dessen Erklärungskraft demonstrieren detaillierte empirische Fallstudien zur internationalen Regulierung von Brandwaffen, Landminen und Streumunition. Der Inhalt • Das humanitäre Völkerrecht und die Norm gegen Streumunition • Normenforschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen • Permissive Effekte und die Nicht-Entstehung von Normen • Theorie, Empirie und Praxis der Entstehung und Nicht-Entstehung von Normen des Waffeneinsatzes Die Zielgruppen • Dozierende und Studierende der Politikwissenschaft, Rechtswissenschaft • Entscheidungsträgerinnen und -träger und Campaigner im Bereich des humanitären Völkerrechts und der Rüstungskontrolle Die Autorin Prof. Dr. Elvira Rosert ist Juniorprofessorin für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg und am Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik (IFSH)

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 New reforms on old structures -- Chapter 2 Myanmar's changes in relation to China's rise -- Chapter 3 'Disciplined' democracy -- Chapter 4 Citizenship and sovereignty in Myanmar -- Chapter 5 Tatmadaw that decides on the 'Exception' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.