Legitimate and Contested: How States Respond to International Norms

摘要: States often invoke international norms to justify their foreign policy-making. In the last twenty years, a large body of literature has shown that matter in politics since they provide frameworks for legitimate action. Nevertheless, it is overlooked absence centralized authority capable enforcing and providing unambiguous interpretations leaves states, particularly great powers, free decide whether recognize or reject legitimacy norms. specific instances policy-making, states take actions cohere with norms, while at other times contest them. Operating decentralized system, crucially depend on state support legitimacy, prominence, effectiveness. Variations way respond call an investigation into domestic conditions lead legitimacy. These will be investigated by comparing attitudes United Kingdom towards humanitarian intervention criminal responsibility studying how these influence During 1999 NATO against Federal Republic Yugoslavia, both countries invoked norm intervention. contrast, during 1998 Rome Conference adoption Statute International Criminal Court, behavior diverged UK endorsing Court US rejecting it. The analysis aims discover actors are responsible interpreted level mechanisms transmitters through which come viewed as illegitimate behavior.