The United States: A Normative Power?

Hamilton, Daniel S.

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“…Norms of human behavior do not fall out of the sky or grow on trees; they are purposely constructed by persons exercising free will ("agents") with often headstrong ideas about what behavior is appropriate. Norm entrepreneurs are originators or early catalysts whose disruptive acts build momentum toward contemplation of new templates of collective action [23], by adverting to issues, or even creating them, using discourses that name, shame, reinterpret, and/or dramatize and problematize the incumbent norms. If successful, the revisionary issue-framings find widespread sympathy in the underlying population, and get adopted as a new perspective on reality [18].…”

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Sustainable Banking: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks as Norm Entrepreneurs

Méndez

Houghton

2020

Sustainability

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This article explores the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) in originating norms of sustainable banking that have attracted and supported green private finance, a role not widely known in the management literature. Any prospect of achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 presupposes mobilizing the estimated US$23.3 trillion currently locked-up in risk-averse private savings to bridge the gap between developing countries’ demand for capital and the current global financial architecture’s capacity to supply it. The three biggest obstacles to sustainable banking identified by the authors are discussed: (1) The uncertain bankability of projects; (2) non-transparency in tracking sustainable capital flows; and (3) no universal mechanism capable of making matches between green investment supply and demand; and what MDBs have actually done to overcome these roadblocks, and might do in future, is also discussed. Seen through the lens of “applied constructivism”, MDBs are revealed to be norm entrepreneurs proactive since at least the 1970s in socially constructing most of the basic norms and practices of sustainable banking which the private sector relies on or is now striving to take up. MDBs are typically the first “port of call” for international governmental organizations (IGOs) and civil society organizations wishing to establish a sustainable financial framework for development; and are the likeliest political agents to pioneer sustainable banking in future. MDBs would do well to develop an awareness of the methods of Constructivism, which they have actually been unwittingly using, to empower themselves to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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Sustainable Banking: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks as Norm Entrepreneurs

Méndez

Houghton

2020

Sustainability

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“…For much of the twentieth century, as Daniel Hamilton observes, 'the US was arguably the world's greatest champion of multilateral rules and institutions, and a fierce advocate of democracy, human rights and the rule of law'. 15 It was also the power that subverted democracy in Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Italy, Venezuela and elsewhere.…”

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“…Hamilton puts this point strongly when he complains of the 'almost wilful ignorance of the strong exceptionalist rhetoric that is part and parcel of daily European political debates'. 34 He observes that it is far from clear that the forces shaping the French revolution have resulted in the same conclusions regarding normative power as those shaping post-war Germany or post-colonial Britain.…”

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Misplaced ‘other’ and normative pretence in transatlantic relations

Duke¹

2010

Journal of Transatlantic Studies

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Normative pretence in EUÁUS relations argues that the role of 'Europe' as a normative power has often been promoted by reference to the United States as the 'other', often using evidence of American exceptionalism to bolster this view. This introduces two unhelpful elements into the debate over whether either is a normative power. First the confusion over who or what 'Europe' is, alongside the tendency to identify the US rather narrowly with the last administration, thereby introducing not only terminological confusion but a potentially distorting element of ahistoricism. Second, it artificially promotes differences in transatlantic relations that are generally exaggerated or false. Seven brief case studies suggest that the EU and the US are in fact remarkably similar as normative powers.

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Normative Power China, Subnational Agency, and Structural Factors in the Global South

Tudoroiu

2022

China in the Global South

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The United States: A Normative Power?

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Sustainable Banking: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks as Norm Entrepreneurs

Sustainable Banking: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks as Norm Entrepreneurs

Misplaced ‘other’ and normative pretence in transatlantic relations

Normative Power China, Subnational Agency, and Structural Factors in the Global South

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