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Norms Without the Great Powers: International Law and Changing Social Standards in World Politics
Adam Bower
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Description for Norms Without the Great Powers: International Law and Changing Social Standards in World Politics
Hardback. This book explores the nature of power in world politics, and the particular role that law plays in defining the meaning and deployment of power in the international system. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
Can multilateral treaties succeed in transforming conduct when they are rejected by the most powerful states in the international system? In the past two decades, coalitions of middle-power states and transnational civil society groups have negotiated binding legal agreements in the face of concerted opposition from China, Russia, andmost especiallythe United States. These instances of a so-called 'new diplomacy' reflect a deliberate attempt to use the language of international law to bypass great power objections in establishing new global standards. Yet critics have frequently derided such treaties as utopian and counter productive because they fail to include those states ... Read more
Can multilateral treaties succeed in transforming conduct when they are rejected by the most powerful states in the international system? In the past two decades, coalitions of middle-power states and transnational civil society groups have negotiated binding legal agreements in the face of concerted opposition from China, Russia, andmost especiallythe United States. These instances of a so-called 'new diplomacy' reflect a deliberate attempt to use the language of international law to bypass great power objections in establishing new global standards. Yet critics have frequently derided such treaties as utopian and counter productive because they fail to include those states ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198789871
SKU
V9780198789871
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About Adam Bower
Adam Bower is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in 2012. He has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford (Department of Politics and International Relations and Nuffield College) and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow). ... Read more
Reviews for Norms Without the Great Powers: International Law and Changing Social Standards in World Politics
Adam Bower's is an important book that moves beyond more traditional studies of power politics in International Relations. Its theoretical framework makes a valuable contribution to constructivist scholarship and particularly its study of the role of law in international relations. The book's rich empirical chapters provide reasons for optimism that (particularly humanitarian) norms can have an impact in international relations ... Read more