Abstract:This study emphasizes the place that cognitive processes rather than objective concerns have in ratification of multilateral treaties. We argue that secondary securitization by non-security experts hinders treaty ratification. When security is at stake, the potential costs of undesired action by the treaty's IO are deemed higher, risk-aversion increases, and asymmetry among the member states' policy perceptions is greater. Thus, our secondary securitization model improves over existing explanations of multilat… Show more
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