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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"international norms"”.
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Legitimate and Contested: How States Respond to International Norms
States often invoke international norms to justify their foreign policy-making. In the last twenty years, a large body of literature has shown that norms matter in international politics since they provide frameworks for legitimate international action. Nevertheless, it is often overlooked that the …
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Extension of bargaining council agreements : international norms and the situation in South Africa
… merit. In order to do this, I also consider the international and foreign positions regarding the extension of collective agreements to nonparties.
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
In contemporary political science, many international relations scholars presume that normative restrictions on military violence in world politics are an outgrowth of Western liberal modernity. Indeed, humanitarian norms such as the Geneva Conventions are comparatively recent in world politics, …
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Examining the dynamic cascading of international norms through cluster genealogies. 1998 UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and Other Cases
… the examination of the construction of the international norms that underpin the Principles indicates that there are important epistemological weaknesses in widely used constructivist frameworks that understand normative shifts in international relations. They are critiqued as being …
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International norm echoing in rebel groups: The cases of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
… research demonstrates that rebel groups use international norms in their discourse and echo patterns in the discourse of states and that they do so to promote their own legitimacy at key turning points in their conflicts. Which international norms rebel groups use most frequently is partially …
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South African peace mission personnel and sexual misconduct against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Constructivist exploration of Norm Internalisation
… sexual misconduct against women violates international norms and law, and persists despite the multitude of interventions aimed at combatting it. South African personnel have repeatedly been identified as perpetrators which calls into question whether the norms that prohibit such conduct …
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THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE & COMPLEX SOVEREIGNTY: USING THE PATHWAYS FRAMEWORK TO EXPLAIN DOMESTIC POLICY OUTCOMES
… has emerged as one of the most contentious international norms within international environmental law. Yet, despite the vexing conceptual uncertainties confronting the precautionary principle, it is repeatedly invoked by policy makers and incorporated within international and domestic …
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Challenging Khmer citizenship : minorities, the state, and the international community in Cambodia
… and practice of Western democracies and the international community has become actively engaged in its global dissemination via international norms and organizations. This thesis investigates the internationalization of minority rights, by exploring state-minority relations in Cambodia, in …
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Post-transition human rights performance in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea
<p>The literature on transitional justice and international human rights norms has been useful for explaining norm internalization for transitioning states. And yet, the literature could not account for the variations to state behavior after norms were implemented via domestic transitional justice …
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Globalization and the diffusion of gender policy reforms in Latin America
… existing literature, including both national and international level analyses that could explain this process of policy convergence. The thesis uses a combination of methodological approaches drawn from the policy diffusion and policy transfer literatures. Drawing on the existing literature a …
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The commonalities or divergence of the meaning of beneficial owner in a treaty (International) and domestic context by Tasneem Koorowlay.
… is to establish the relevance of the international interpretation of beneficial owner to SA’s interpretation of the concept. The phrase “beneficial owner” was introduced into the South African Income Tax Act in April 2012 following an intention to align South African tax as regards …
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Destabilization as Foreign Policy: The USA in Latin America, 1947-1989
… economic and reputational costs for violating international norms of sovereignty, we should expect to only rarely observe the adoption by states of risky foreign policies like destabilization (which is defined as the policy of changing the balance of power between a target government and its …
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Indigenous peoples and the right to culture : an international law analysis
… of indigenous peoples remains a subject of international political and legal discourse. Efforts have been made to study ways of promoting and protecting indigenous rights and to develop international norms for the protection of these rights. These efforts have sprung forth a plethora of …
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When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics Of Visibility And The Diffusion Of Sexual Minority Rights In Europe
… of socio-political change and the diffusion of norms. Despite similar international pressures, why are the trajectories of socio-legal recognition for marginalized groups so different across states? This question is not answered by conventional explanations of diffusion and social change …
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Implementation of international human rights and labour standards in Lesotho and their impact on Basotho women
… it was possible to include more current. The international community has established norms intended to guide the members of the respective conventions and treaties in making of their domestic laws. These guidelines operate as an indication of the member country's intention to abide by the …
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“Angles of Approaching Gender Equality: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up”
<p>The international community has attempted to integrate and implement norms into their domestic structure for many decades. They have incorporated the norm of gender equality through many different measures, however failed to identify a successful approach to implementing this type of norm …
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China's New Maritime Legal Enforcement Strategy in the South China Sea: Legal Warfare and an Emerging Contest Over Norms at Sea
… emerging contest between China and the US over international norms at sea.
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Realising the socio-economic rights of refugees under international human rights law: A case study of South Africa
… in South Africa is in accordance with existing international norms and standards for the protection of refugees. The study focuses on the realisation of the above-mentioned socio-economic rights in order to measure the treatment. The study also seeks to address the obstacles which prevent the …
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Women’s Rights And Public Confidence: The Connection Between International Human Rights Norms And Public Confidence In Women’s Organizations
… of the state’s level of internalization of international norms of basic women’s rights. This paper uses the Convention to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as the foundation for international women’s rights. For the empirical analysis, I utilize CIRI data that operationalizes CEDAW …
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