African resistance to the International Criminal Court: Halting the advance of the anti-impunity norm

Mills, Kurt; Bloomfield, Alan

doi:10.1017/s0260210517000407

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“…Hierarchical contestation is conceptually similar to the 'consistent constructivism' raised by Kurt Mills and Alan Bloomfield (2018): clashes of interest boil down to competing claims about norms precedence. The discussions concerning humanitarian intervention-whether states' sovereignty rights trump individual human rights-may serve as an example of hierarchical contestation in today's international politics, in which two norms openly clash and different states interpret differently which norm trumps the other (Wheeler 2002).…”

Section: (Re)constructions Of Deviance and The Typology Of Normative mentioning

confidence: 96%

Bringing the outsiders in: an interactionist perspective on deviance and normative change in international politics

Smetana

Onderčo

2018

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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In this article, we draw on insights from the interactionist perspective in sociology and international relations (IR) norm contestation literature to explore the relationship between deviance and normative change in international politics. In IR, this is still largely unexplored territory: we already know a great deal about how norms change, yet we know much less about the actual role norm violations play in this process. In order to address this gap, we conceptualize three types of normative contestation and affirmation that take place in connection with deviance (re)construction: (1) applicatory contestation and affirmation, reconstructing the meanings of international norms; (2) justificatory contestation and affirmation, challenging and reaffirming the legitimacy of international norms; and (3) hierarchical contestation and affirmation, contesting and reaffirming the relative value and importance of international norms. We discuss how, as a consequence of these dynamics, deviance-making produces both stability and change in the normative structure of world politics. 1 We use the term 'deviance' in its traditional sociological sense of 'certain deviations from social norms which encounter disapproval' (Clinard 1957, vii). While the main focus of sociology as a discipline has been on deviant behaviour, deviance also encompasses norm-violating attitudes (beliefs) and conditions (Adler and Adler 2014, 13). For a discussion on competing definitions of deviance in sociology, see Clinard and Meier (2011, 6-9).

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Section: (Re)constructions Of Deviance and The Typology Of Normative mentioning

confidence: 96%

Bringing the outsiders in: an interactionist perspective on deviance and normative change in international politics

Smetana

Onderčo

2018

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…The Council initially ignored this petition and then decided not to discuss it but only to ‘take note’ of it in its resolution 828 (UN Security Council, 2008). Outraged at this, the AU issued the so-called Sirte-declaration in response, requesting AU member states not to cooperate with the ICC regarding the arrest warrant on Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir (African Union, 2009; see also Jalloh, 2017: 204–206; Mills and Bloomfield, 2017: 10–11).…”

Section: Contestation Of the International Criminal Courtmentioning

confidence: 99%

What’s in a name? Contestation and backlash against international norms and institutions

Deitelhoff

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Norm research has struggled to leave behind its liberal progressive perspective on norms. It has turned its attention towards contestation and norms erosion. Still, in a number of studies contestation is not merely an analytic concept but a normative concept as well, describing a problematic development of norms. Plainly, contestation is often seen as a form of political backlash. This is problematic because the bulk of normative change proceeds in the form of contestation, so we need to be able to distinguish the two. Studying the recurring and radicalising contestation of the International Criminal Court, this article demonstrates the intimate relationship between contestation and backlash. It argues that while backlash might be fruitfully applied to the study of norm contestation, its added value for norms research is linked to the normative connotation of regressive politics, that is, a ‘thick’ concept of backlash.

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“…18 Kurt Mills and Alan Bloomfield in turn have pointed to the risks posed to the ICC by norm 'antipreneurs'. 19 Franziska Boehme highlights domestic political drivers of South African government attitudes towards the ICC, while Kenneth Rodman underlines the extent to which the effectiveness of international criminal tribunals depends on the preferences of materially powerful states. 20 Nor is the ICC alone in its high-profile encounter with backlash.…”

Section: Israel Law Reviewmentioning

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International Adjudication and Its Discontents: A Pluralist Approach to International Tribunal Backlash

Lovat

2020

Isr. law rev.

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International tribunal backlash remains poorly understood: hampered by conceptual challenges, systematic research into the causes of this phenomenon remains nascent. The present article makes two contributions to advancing this endeavour. First, building on existing literature, it sets out a working definition of international tribunal backlash, tailored to facilitate mixed method empirical research into the causes of backlash across institutions and sectors. Second, drawing on international relations’ pluralist turn, the article provides an analytically eclectic theoretical scaffold for causal analysis of international tribunal backlash, enabling standardised cross-institutional and sectoral comparison without over-simplifying the complexity of backlash in various instances. The article accordingly provides the building blocks for improved understanding of the causes of – and the potential scope to manage – international tribunal backlash across institutions, regions and sectors.

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African resistance to the International Criminal Court: Halting the advance of the anti-impunity norm

Cited by 59 publications

References 30 publications

Bringing the outsiders in: an interactionist perspective on deviance and normative change in international politics

Bringing the outsiders in: an interactionist perspective on deviance and normative change in international politics

What’s in a name? Contestation and backlash against international norms and institutions

International Adjudication and Its Discontents: A Pluralist Approach to International Tribunal Backlash

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