PSC 106 Chapter 11: FLS Chapter 11
9 Nov 2017
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International law and norms bind states and other agents in their relations with each other. International law is created through custom and treaties, and is characterized by varying degrees of obligation, precision, and delegation. Norms are standards of behavior defined in terms of rights and obligations. there are three types: constitutive, procedural, and regulative. Norms are created and institutionalized when their standards of behavior are seen as morally right and appropriate by a sufficiently large fraction of the relevant population. Successful efforts to create new norms typically occur when individuals or groups known as norm entrepreneurs, such as transnational advocacy networks (tans) press governments to adopt them. States can acquire information about compliance with international laws and norms in three ways: self-reporting, directly monitoring the actions of other states, and relying in part on the monitoring of trustworthy third parties, such as tans.
