Health issues vary in the amount of attention and resources they receive from global health
organisations and national governments. How issues are framed could shape differences in …

Postwar recovery efforts foreground gender equality as a key component of building more
liberal democracies. This review explores the burgeoning scholarship on women's rights …

Antje Wiener examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms such as
fundamental rights and the prohibition of torture and sexual violence. Providing accounts of …

Contestation of international norms has become the new focus of IR norm research. The
optimism of the 1990s that fundamental liberal norms would diffuse globally has remained …

Reactions to the promotion of human rights norms in post-conflict countries often clash with
central assumptions of established theoretical approaches to norm diffusion. Socialization …

To what extent are global rule-of-law norms, which external actors promote in post-conflict
states, localized? Who decides whether global standards or local particularities prevail …

Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and
popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere–from the architecture of our brains …

In studying the global spread and implementation of liberal norms, scholars have moved
from linear notions of norm diffusion and promotion to an emphasis on norm contestation …

The meaning of norms is empirically contested. Supposing an inherent instability of norm
meaning, contestation, therefore, represents a fundamental conceptual challenge to the …

The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) is the most significant
international normative framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on …