In the past, the European public has not been enthusiastic about nuclear deterrence and the
stationing of US American nuclear weapons in Europe. Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine …

This article offers a new conceptualisation of the meaning of norms in world politics. It starts
from the observation that existing norm scholarship in International Relations has …

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies
of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises questions about whether …

This theory note argues that international norms, as currently understood by scholars of
international relations, can be seen as emergent properties of a complex adaptive system …

Abstract The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (tpnw) represents a daring
act of self-empowerment: nuclear have-nots produced an international disarmament treaty …

Finnemore and Sikkink's norms life cycle model (NLCM) is a powerful heuristic device that
continues to be a mandatory point of reference for theoretical and empirical scholarship on …

We argue that the framework of norms has generated a progressive research agenda in the
field of global nuclear politics, providing important insights that traditional realist and …

International mediators are often tasked to promote liberal norms. However, dilemmas
created in diffusing these norms, influenced by the mediators' interaction with the conflict …

This chapter focuses on norm contestation in the emerging stage by exploring the possible
prohibition of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), which is advocated by the …

Abstract The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a central element of the global
nuclear order, the primary goal of which is to prevent nuclear war. But this understanding is …