Table Of ContentNorm Research in International Relations
Series Editor: Antje Wiener
Šárka Kolmašová
Ricardo Reboredo Editors
Norm Diffusion
Beyond
the West
Agents and Sources of Leverage
Norm Research in International Relations
Series Editor
Antje Wiener, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, University of Hamburg, Hamburg,
Germany
This book series offers an outlet for interdisciplinary research on norms in the context
of international relations and global governance. It features scientific and scholarly
studies which examine the way norms are created and re-created through interactions
between actors at the international level, taking into account the reflexive nature
of governance relationships and their impact on state behaviour through the re-
constitution of norms.
Norms in international relations are defined as ideas of varying degrees of abstrac-
tion and specification that concern fundamental values, organising principles or stan-
dardised procedures. They resonate across states and global actors in the form of
official policies, laws, treaties and agreements, while their meaning may be stable or
contested.
Norm Research in International Relations (NRIR) welcomes proposals for
research monographs, edited volumes and handbooks from a variety of disciplines
that seek to advance theories and applied research in international relations and
to arrive at a better understanding of the role and impact of norms. Relevant topics
include, but are not limited to, issues of international justice, research on contestation,
human rights, international treaties in areas such as energy, environment or security,
and constructivist norm research in international relations theory, recognition theory
and international law.
All titles in this series are peer-reviewed.
For further information on the series and to submit a proposal for consideration,
please contact the Johannes Glaeser (Senior Editor Economics) Johannes.glaeser@
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Šárka Kolmašová Ricardo Reboredo
Editors
Norm Diffusion Beyond
the West
Agents and Sources of Leverage
Editors
Šárka Kolmašová Ricardo Reboredo
Metropolitan University Prague Metropolitan University Prague
Strašnice, Czech Republic Strašnice, Czech Republic
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Acknowledgements
This research project was funded by the Czech Science Foundation [grant number
GA20-07805S].
Hereby, we would like to thank the Czech Science Foundation for providing
funding, which allowed us to establish the initial team of contributing authors. This
book resulted from a larger project that aimed to analyse the complex dynamics of
social norms in international order, including norms dissemination, contestation and
transformation. Reflection of norms’ transfers beyond the West was one of the core
thematic clusters as the initial ambition of this larger project was to emphasize the role
of non-Western countries—emerging powers as well as small peripheral states. We
simply wanted to demonstrate that countries such as China, Indonesia, Colombia
or Trinidad and Tobago can represent influential norm-makers and their agency
fundamentally matters in norm transfers within particular regions and beyond them.
All contributing authors shared our vision that more research is needed with regard
to non-Western agency (however we are fully aware of the problematic connotations
associated with the labels “Western”, “non-Western” or “beyond the West”). Our
strongest gratitude belongs to the contributing authors of this book, who drafted,
patiently revised and completed their chapters but also provided comments to each
other and generally participated in discussions on the book composition and main
arguments.
In January and February 2022, we have organized three webinars via zoom to
present the first drafts of individual chapters and provide feedback on the level of the
project team. These sessions were open to our colleagues from the Department of
International Relations and European Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague
(MUP), who kindly joined our debates. Hereby, we would like to thank Martina
Varkoˇcková, Mats Braun, Michal Kolmaš and Vít Beneš for their valuable insights
and general support of our project. These webinars were organized in times we were
all hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemics. Our initial plans to conduct field
research trips and travel to countries that were subject to our research were unfortu-
nately unfulfilled. At the same time, as online meetings suddenly became a standard
of communication, we managed to organize three amazing sessions attended by all
contributing authors and our colleagues from very distant areas of the world. Many of
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us conducted personal interviews and consultations online, which was acknowledged
by the authors in their chapters.
We would like to also thank Springer and its team working on the Norm Research
in International Relations book series. Based on the external review process, we
have introduced an additional chapter on environmental norms and the agency of
Caribbean small islands and developing countries (SIDS) written by Michelle Scobie.
Besides this major change, we have improved the general composition of the book
thanks to the constructive feedback of the external reviewers. The manuscript was also
reviewed by the series editor, Prof. Antje Wiener, who provided valuable comments
and helped us to clarify the core arguments. Last but not least, we would like to
thank Johannes Glaeser, the publishing editor of the series, for his tireless support
and guidance throughout the whole publishing process.
Contents
Introduction: Agency and Norm Diffusion Beyond the West ........... 1
Šárka Kolmašová
Norm Diffusion by Rising Global Powers
Who Is Socialising Whom? How Southern Powers Negotiate
Accountability in International Development Cooperation ............. 21
Laura Trajber Waisbich
Active Learning Beyond Borders? Interrogating the Diffusion
of Development Cooperation Norms from Japan to China and
Beyond ........................................................... 39
Kazushige Kobayashi
China’s Promotion of Cyber Sovereignty Beyond the West ............ 61
Aleš Karmazin
Norm Diffusion by Middle Powers and Small States
From Norm-Maker to Norm-Taker? South Africa, the BRICS
and the African National Congress’ Hegemonic Decline ............... 79
Ricardo Reboredo
Recognising Indonesia’s Actorness: Challenging and Contributing
to Norm Diffusion ................................................. 95
Anna Grzywacz
Diaspora/Kin Spaces as Sites for Non-Western Norm
Diffusion—Turkey’s Ethnonational Norms in Circulation ............. 109
Hüsrev Tabak
Climate Change, Norm Dynamics and the Agency of SIDS ............ 125
Michelle Scobie
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Norm Diffusion by and within Multilateral Institutions
Redefined, Repackaged and Redeployed: Diffusion of Citizen
Security by the Inter-American Development Bank ................... 145
Šárka Kolmašová and Arlene B. Tickner
ASEAN as a Norm Entrepreneur in International Cooperation
on Nuclear Non-proliferation: Bases, Pathways, and Challenges ....... 165
Guangyu Qiao-Franco and Randy W. Nandyatama
The EU Presidencies of Central Eastern European Members:
A Framework for Mutual Socialisation and Normative Influence
on the EU’s Agenda? ............................................... 183
Elsa Tulmets
Conclusion: Norms, Diffusion and Power Dynamics Beyond the
West ............................................................. 201
Ricardo Reboredo
Contributors
Anna Grzywacz Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
Aleš Karmazin Department of Asian Studies, Metropolitan University Prague,
Prague, Czech Republic
Kazushige Kobayashi College and Graduate School of International Relations,
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan;
Centre On Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of Interna-
tional and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Šárka Kolmašová Department of International Relations and European Studies,
Metropolitan University Prague, Strašnice, Czech Republic
Randy W. Nandyatama Department of International Relations, Gadjah Mada
University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Guangyu Qiao-Franco Department of Political Science, Nijmegen School of
Management, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Ricardo Reboredo Department of International Relations and European Studies,
Metropolitan University Prague, Prague, Czechia
Michelle Scobie The Institute of International Relations, The University of the West
Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Hüsrev Tabak Faculty of Economics, Zihni Derin Campus, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
University, Rize, Turkey
Arlene B. Tickner Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies, Univer-
sidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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