The power of human rights a decade after

Jetschke, Anja; Liese, Andrea

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139237161.004

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“…On "denial," see Sikkink 1999. 19 Jetschke andLiese 2013;Schulze-Cleven and Weishaupt 2015. 20 Florini 1996, 366, emphasis in original.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms

Dixon¹

2017

Perspect. polit.

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Scholarship on states’ responses to international norms has focused on commitment, compliance, and noncompliance; paying insufficient attention to responses that fall outside these categories. Beyond simply complying with or violating a norm; states contest, resist, and respond to international norms in a range of ways. I identifyrhetorical adaptationas a central form of resistance to international norms. Rather than simply rejecting a norm or charges of norm violation, such a strategy draws on a norm’s content to resist pressures for compliance or minimize perceptions of violation. Theorizing the relationship between norms’ content and states’ resistant rhetoric, I identify four types of rhetorical adaptation: norm disregard, norm avoidance, norm interpretation, and norm signaling. To probe the plausibility of these propositions, a case study of Turkey’s post-World War II narrative of the Armenian Genocide traces a sequence of rhetorical adaptations over the past six decades. Building on the case study, I then draw out generalizable insights into the uses and effects of rhetorical adaptation. Connecting theoretical concerns in political science with the interdisciplinary fields of genocide studies and memory studies, I delineate the ways in which actors instrumentally use norms and expand understandings of the forms and effects of so-called norm takers’ agency.

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“…On "denial," see Sikkink 1999. 19 Jetschke andLiese 2013;Schulze-Cleven and Weishaupt 2015. 20 Florini 1996, 366, emphasis in original.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms

Dixon¹

2017

Perspect. polit.

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“…Argumentative discourse is thus prevalent in phase 3 (tactical concession) and 4 (prescriptive status) and is considered so important because this is where contestation over what the human rights norm means and how it can be implemented occurs. It could be that this is never fully resolved and partly explains why some states get "stuck" in phases 3 and 4 (see Jetschke and Liese, 2013).…”

Section: Spiral Model Mechanisms and Scoping Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

Collins

2018

The Pacific Review

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Whether it is the persecution of the Rohingya, the disappearance of human rights activists, the general limiting of freedom of speech across the region, or the resumption of the arbitrary use of the death penalty, Southeast Asia can be said to be facing a human rights crisis. This human rights crisis is though occurring at a time when the region's institution, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has never been so interested in human rights. After a lengthy period of time in which ASEAN either ignored, or paid lip service to human rights, the Association has created a human rights bodythe ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)and adopted an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). In this article I utilise the Spiral Model to explain how, when ASEAN member states are regressing in their commitment to human rights, an intergovernmental body continues to promote their commitment and lay the ground work for their compliance.

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“…Recently, scholars have begun to address this issue, exploring why human rights change gets delayed, suspended, and even reversed due to weak local support and mobilization (Jetschke and Liese, 2013). First, despite activist opposition against security measures that involve human rights violations (e.g.…”

Section: Tans and Human Rights Changementioning

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“…While it does not necessarily predict linear progress of human rights change, it still underestimates how difficult it could be for transnational activists to translate global movements into local movements. Recently, scholars have started to address this issue, exploring why the introduction of global norms and movements into local politics succeeds or fails (see, for instance, Jetschke and Liese, 2013; Nuñez-Mietz and Iommi, 2017; Zwingel, 2012).…”

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Lost in translation: Problematizing the localization of transnational activism

Minami

2018

European Journal of International Relations

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Existing studies on human rights change posit that activists use transnational networks to organize global and local movements against governments. However, this explanation assumes that international rights claims gain local support and underestimates how difficult it could be for activists to translate global movements into local movements. I address this issue by proposing three mechanisms through which activists face such difficulties and fail to pressure governments. First, misrepresentation occurs when international organizations accept and support activists who do not represent local voices and cannot get local support for their rights claims. Second, misperception happens when activists introduce global norms into local debates but local audiences, unfamiliar with these “foreign” concepts, misperceive them and thus do not support international rights claims. Third, mismatch occurs when pre-existing local movements mistakenly use international rights claims for their own goals, lead local discussions, and overshadow transnational activism. Due to these problems of misrepresentation, misperception, and mismatch, activists may fail to localize their transnational activism. This, in turn, makes it difficult to realize their claims at home. I demonstrate my argument by analyzing the indigenous peoples’ movements in Japan, tracing the success and failure of Ainu and Okinawan activists to domesticate the global indigenous peoples’ movement.

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The power of human rights a decade after

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Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms

Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms

From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

Lost in translation: Problematizing the localization of transnational activism

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