Overview
- Provides a coherent, comparative framework for understanding resistance
- Offers an innovative theoretical approach, drawing on critical IR theory
- Shows implications for practice by pointing out conditions for success or failure in different forms of resistance
Part of the book series: Global Issues (GLOISS)
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This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global politics, at the same time finding themselves demonized as pariahs and outlaws who disturb established systems of governance. However, over time, some of these actors not only manage to shake off such allegations, but even find their normative convictions accepted by international institutions. This book develops an innovative conceptual framework to understand and explain these processes, using seven cases studies in diverse policy fields; including international security, health, migration, religion and internet politics. This framework demonstrates the importance of coalition-building and strategic framing in order to form a successful resistance and bring change in world politics.
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Keywords
- World Politics
- Resistance in World Politics
- Change in World Politics
- International Dissidence
- Political Order
- IR Theory
- International Dissidence
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Use of Force at Sea
- National Liberation Movements
- 'Rouge State' concept
- Dissidence on the internet
- Western Representations of Islam
- Freedom of Movement
- Migration
Table of contents (9 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Svenja Gertheiss has worked as a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and the University Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests include, among others, international migration, refugees and diasporas.
Stefanie Herr is a Campaigner at World Vision Germany. Before joining World Vision, she worked as a research associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders". Her work focused on non-state armed groups and their commitment to humanitarian norms. She conducted extensive field research in Sri Lanka, Southern Sudan and Kenya.
Klaus Dieter Wolf holds the Chair for International Relations at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, and is the Executive Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He is the Speaker of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalised World” and one of the Principal Investigators of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”.
Carmen Wunderlich is a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She studied Political Science, Philosophy and German Language and Literature at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her research focuses on norm contestation and so-called ‘rogue states’ as norm entrepreneurs and arms control and disarmament policy (with a focus on Sweden and Iran), among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resistance and Change in World Politics
Book Subtitle: International Dissidence
Editors: Svenja Gertheiss, Stefanie Herr, Klaus Dieter Wolf, Carmen Wunderlich
Series Title: Global Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50445-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50444-5Published: 16 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84401-5Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50445-2Published: 07 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-8863
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8871
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, Globalization