POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Stanford University Press
28 Jan 2018
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The international system (6): deterrence, norms, and weapons taboos. Nina tannenwald (2005), stigmatizing the bomb: origins of the nuclear taboo, . Further reading: richard price (1997), the chemical weapons taboo, cornell university press, t. v. Paul (2009), the tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons, stanford university. Norms: recall: norms = standards of behavior for actors with a given identity in a given social context. They attach meaning to certain behaviors and de ne what actions are right or appropriate under particular circumstances: norms can de ne who is a legitimate actor and who is not e. g. sovereign statehood. Norm"s life cycle (finnemore & sikkink 1998: norm emergence. Framing intelligibility, t, mobilization: norm cascade. Transnational pressure: the boomerang mode: norm internalization rede nition of state interests. The norm is taken for granted, unquestioned. The boomerang model: norms, tans, and the boomerang model : The subconscious decision-maker: taboos in international politics: nuclear and chemical weapons, know-how: the logic of practicality, habits.
