1st Edition

Norm Antipreneurs and the Politics of Resistance to Global Normative Change

Edited By Alan Bloomfield, Shirley V. Scott Copyright 2017
274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over recent decades International Relations scholars have investigated norm dynamics processes at some length, with the ‘norm entrepreneur’ concept having become a common reference point in the literature. The focus on norm entrepreneurs has, however, resulted in a bias towards investigating the agents and processes of successful normative change. This book challenges this inherent bias by... Read more
Foreword by Amitav Acharya

1. Norm Antipreneurs in World Politics

Alan Bloomfield and Shirley V. Scott

2. Resisting the Responsibility to Protect

Alan Bloomfield

3. Resisting the Ban on Cluster Munitions

Kenki Adachi

4. Resistance to the Emergent Norm to Advance Progress Towards the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Orli Zahava

5. Rival Networks and the Conflict over Assassination/ Targeted Killing

Clifford Bob

6. Resisting the Emerging ‘Humanitarian Access’ Norm

Alan Bloomfield

7. Resisting Japan’s Promotion of a Norm of Sustainable Whaling

Shirley V. Scott and Lucia Oriana

8. Resisting the Norm of Climate Security

Shirley V. Scott

9. Additional Categories of Agency: ‘Creative Resistors’ to Normative Change in Post-Crisis Global Financial Governance

Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

10. Contesting Private Sustainability Norms in Primary Commodity Production: Norm Hybridisation in the Palm Oil Sector

Helen Nesadurai

11. Whose Norm is it Anyway? Mediating Contested Norm-Histories in Iraq (2003) and Syria (2013)

Frank Harvey and John Mitton

12. To Boldly Go Where No Country has gone before: U.S. Norm Antipreneurism and the Weaponization of Outer Space

Jeffrey S. Lantis

13. Resisting ‘Good Governance’ Norms in the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy

William Clapton

14. Norm Entrepreneurs and Antipreneurs: chalk and cheese, or two faces of the same coin?

Shirley V. Scott and Alan Bloomfield

Biography

Alan Bloomfield is the Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Shirley V. Scott is Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.