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 …

In recent years, sustainable futures have gained momentum in the political discourse on
shaping policies to better cope with future challenges in Europe and around the globe …

The EU is committed to promoting human rights through its development policy. This article
argues that its expansive human rights framework has led to EU‐internal and outside‐in …

The effort to address climate change cuts across a wide range of non-environmental actors
and policy areas, including international economic institutions such as the Group of Twenty …

Historically, crises have been lauded for fostering European Union (EU) integration.
Conversely, it has recently been predicted that the current 'polycrisis' will precipitate the EU's …

In this article, we analyze the emergence of a global security norm of the COVID-19
epidemic as a threat to international security. This crisis is one of the gravest crises that …

Finnemore and Sikkink's norms life cycle model (NLCM) is a powerful heuristic device that
continues to be a mandatory point of reference for theoretical and empirical scholarship on …

Norms for cyberspace remain highly contested internationally among governments and
fragmented domestically within governments. Despite diplomatic activities at the United …

Research on global norm diffusion and institutional transfer has long neglected the agency
of the governed. In the last decade, conventional top-down approaches have been …

The international community has been debating lethal autonomous weapons systems
(LAWS) under the auspices of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (UN …