V International Relations / Relations Internationales
| Published date | 01 June 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451906900305 |
| Date | 01 June 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
(a) International law, organization and administration/Droit international, organisation et administration internationales
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ADEDIRAN, Bolarinwa — Reforming the Security Council
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BENLOLO CARABOT, Myriam — La transformation de la
through a code of conduct: a Sisyphean task? Ethics and
notion de frontière dans l’Union européenne (The trans-
International Affairs 32(4), Winter 2018 : 463-482.
formation of the notion of borders within the European
The failure of the UN Security Council to adequately and effectively
Union). Pouvoirs 165, Apr. 2018 : 65-79.
address the Syrian crisis has brought renewed scrutiny to the veto and
The EU has an ambivalent relationship with borders. Within the “area
its capricious use during mass atrocity situations. In response to these
without internal borders”, the union does not use the border to limit its
concerns, the idea of a code of conduct to regulate the exercise of the
jurisdiction, like the nation-state, but to justify it. It is in fact the crossing of
veto during humanitarian situations is now being increasingly advanced
the border which allows the realization of the said space. The progres-
by several states, including France and the UK. This paper disputes the
sive and uncertain formalization of a “territory” of the union signals an
utility of such a code and argues that it would not make any significant
evolution that is important yet ambivalent regarding the conception of the
difference to the way mass atrocity crimes are addressed. I examine
border which is emerging within this singular legal system. [R] [See Abstr.
three core arguments often extended to justify the merit and the utility of
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the norm: the circumvention argument, the naming and shaming argu-
ment, and the Charter reform argument. [R, abr.]
69.4074
BOZZINI, Emanuela — The merits of the synthesis be-
tween theories: an explanation of policy change in Euro-
pean regulation on pesticides through the multiple
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ALTER, Karen J. ; RAUSTIALA, Kal — The rise of interna-
stream framework and the stage model. World Political
tional regime complexity. Annual Review of Law and Social
Science 14(2), 2018 : 213-234.
Science 14, 2018 : 329-349.
See Abstr. 67.7451.
The signature feature of 21st-c. international cooperation is arguably not
the regime but the regime complex. A regime complex is an array of
partially overlapping and nonhierarchical institutions that includes more
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CARRARO, Valentina ; JONGEN, Hortense — Leaving the
than one international agreement or authority. The institutions and
doors open or keeping them closed? The impact of
agreements may be functional or territorial in nature. International regime
transparency on the authority of peer reviews in interna-
complexity refers to international political systems of global governance
tional organizations. Global Governance 24(4), Dec. 2018 :
that emerge because of the coexistence of rule density and regime
615-635.
complexes. This article highlights insights and questions that emerge
Although transparency is frequently employed to enhance the legitimacy
from the last 15 years of scholarship on the politics of international
of public organizations, several scholars point to its potentially negative
regime complexity, explaining why regime complexes arise, what factors
implications. This study analyzes the impact of transparency on the
sustain them, and the range of political effects regime complexity cre-
authority of peer reviews in international organizations. Authority, here
ates. Our conclusion explains why, in a post-American world order, the
conceived as rooted in legitimacy beliefs, is crucial for peer reviews to
trend of greater international regime complexity will likely accelerate. [R]
produce effects. This research is based on results from an online survey
and forty-three interviews with actors involved in two United Nations peer
reviews: the Universal Periodic Review in human rights and the Imple-
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ANDREWS, Nathan — Normative spaces and the UN
mentation Review Mechanism in the fight against corruption. The article
Global Compact for transnational corporations: the norm
shows that transparency positively affects the perceived development of
diffusion paradox. Journal of International Relations and
pressure, yet negatively influences mutual learning and appears to be
Development 22(1), March 2019 : 77-106.
unable to ensure equal treatment of states. [R]
Regime theorists argue that international regimes and institutions are
based on principles, norms and decision-making procedures that consti-
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CECCORULLI, Michela — Back to Schengen: the collec-
tute a set of patterned behaviours around which expectations converge.
tive securitisation of the EU free-border area. West Euro-
The notion of these institutionalised ‘logics of appropriateness’ has led to
pean Politics 42(2), 2019 : 302-322.
the proliferation of many global norms, such as the UN Global Compact,
that are considered to govern the practices of multinational corporations
This article considers how a major influx of migrants from North Africa
in the extractive sector. The key question that this paper asks is, to what
and the Middle East during 2015 led to an EU-initiated collective securiti-
extent is the UN Global Compact influencing the behaviour of mining
zation of the Schengen space. The events of 2015 represented an
companies in Ghana — particularly the social responsibility performance
internal crisis for the EU. This was not simply because migration
of Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd and Chirano Gold Mines Ltd.? This paper
stretched host country facilities and created political division within and
underscores the paradox of putting a widely acclaimed arrangement
between the member states. The uncoordinated reintroduction of border
such as the Global Compact into practice and its implications for the
controls by some member states threatened the unravelling of the
livelihoods of expected ‘norm beneficiaries’. [R, abr.]
Schengen Agreement itself. The consequent security discourse which
then gained currency in EU documents strongly underlined the need “to
go back to normality” and “to go back to Schengen”, not only to manage
increasingly tense relations among member states but also to preserve
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BELL, Sam R. ; CLAY, K. Chad ; MURDIE, Amanda — Join
what was seen as a core achievement of the EU. [R, abr.] [See Abstr.
the chorus, avoid the spotlight: the effect of neighbor-
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hood and social dynamics on human rights organiza-
tions shaming. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(1), Jan.
2019 : 167-193.
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CHRISTOU, George — The collective securitisation of
Which countries are likely to be ignored for their human rights abuses?
cyberspace in the European Union. West European Politics
42(2), 2019 : 278-301.
This article focuses on one particular way that cases of human rights
abuse might be overlooked by human rights organizations (HROs): the
Reflecting a central premise of the col ective securitization model, it is
relative visibility of the state’s abusiveness vis-à-vis its geographic and
argued in this article that both specific events and longer-term trends
social peers. HROs are more likely to target abusive states that are
have galvanized and reinforced the EU discourse of increasing threat
located in regions with more HRO resources and/or are surrounded by
and risk around cybersecurity, at different points in time. Thus, whilst
states that demonstrate higher respect for human rights, as these abus-
major cyberattacks have caused the EU to reflect with some urgency on
es wil stand out much more clearly. Further, human rights treaties can
the increasing threat and review its approach, new policy initiatives
be used by abusive states as a form of strategic “social camouflage,”
evolved incrementally thereafter, rather than being the product of any
with states trying to minimize the risk of HRO attention by ratifying
emergency action outside the EU’s normal politics. It is shown further
human rights treaties to look more like their rights-respecting peers. [R,
that, in the case of cybersecurity, discourses of threat and risk have
abr.]
continued beyond policy initiation, and that this discourse has very much
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run in paral el with further action and initiatives. [R, abr.] [See Abstr.
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DEMASI, Mirko A. — Facts as social action in political
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debates about the European Union. Political Psychology
40(1), Feb. 2019 : 3-20.
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CLAASSEN, Rutger, et al.— Four models of protecting
This article argues that orientations to issues of “fact” and “truth” are a
citizenship and social rights in Europe. Journal of Com-
live and controversial matter when debating the EU. Using Discursive
mon Market Studies 57(1), Jan. 2017 : 159-174.
Psychology (DP), the analysis is on how politicians use fact-based
(counter)claims in multiparty interactions, in the form of debates about
This article offers a synthesis of and conclusion to the contributions
the UK and the EU. Three types of factual challenges are presented to
included in the Special Issue “Rethinking the European Social Market
illustrate the rhetorical function of claims: challenging the essence of an
Economy”. Based on different understandings of citizenship in the...
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