This research consolidates debates around the impact of international norm contestation
and evaluates previous findings. It conceptualises a typology for norms and norm …

Contestation is currently one major field of research on international norms: does
contestation strengthen or weaken a norm? What role does international law play in this …

Contestation of international norms has become the new focus of IR norm research. The
optimism of the 1990s that fundamental liberal norms would diffuse globally has remained …

This article seeks to shed light on the question of how 'meanings' of an international norm
adapt to norm contestation and asks whether and how r 2 p is being adapted to contestation …

Scholarship on international norms has devoted growing attention to emerging powers,
often portrayed as norm-shapers, ie actors engaged in the development of international …

We argue that emerging powers' reluctance to conform to new norms at the global level is
grounded not in rejection of norms' content, but in contestation of norms' implementation …

Norms in international relations are frequently contested and subjects of controversy.
According to existing research contestation of norms can either lead to their strengthening or …

Abstract Responsibility to Protect (R2P) brought about new challenges for research on
norms in International Relations, mainly due to the actions of emerging powers. These states …

This article makes empirical use of the concepts of norm localization and norm subsidiarity,
as developed by Acharya and revamped by Prantl and Nakano, to analyze Brazil's …

Drawing on a notable example of a non-Western normative initiative, Brazil's 'Responsibility
while Protecting'(RwP), this article contributes to broadening the scope of the norm …