PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Treaty On The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons, North American Free Trade Agreement, Contract
Document Summary
Many international rules, regulations are obeyed despite the lack of enforcement. Mutual deterrence (fear of retaliation in kind) Authority exists (it"s just dispersed rather than centralized) We do have governing tools and mechanisms. The set of rules that countries follow when dealing with each other. The sources of international law: (where does it come from: tradition (includes norms , agreements signed by states, domestic judicial decisions, legal scholarship. Shared expectations on the part of a group about appropriate behaviour. Norms are legitimized to the extent that members of the group practice the behaviour without question. When it is established it can turn into a law. Agreed upon behaviour that becomes habitual over time and gains legitimacy. Behaviour ao habitual that leaders stop calculating the payoffs or costs of acting a certain way. Norms are often disputed, unsettles, and evolving. Ex: ban against the use of chemical weapons. The cq taboo is a very robust international norm.
