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Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Antje Wiener
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
IPT1: Contesting
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 22
Weitere Informationen:
Verwendbar in folgenden Studiengängen bzw. Modulen:
- M.A. Politikwissenschaft (FSB ab WiSe 2014/15): Modul Internationale Politische Theorie (IPT 1)
- Masterstudiengänge der Fakultät WiSo: Wahlbereich
englische Übersetzung des Lehrveranstaltungstitels:
Kommentare/ Inhalte:
In practice international relations are organised by distinct types of order and fundamental norms which are put into place by practices of governance. Over the past two decades norms research in International Relations (IR) theory has noted that norms have become increasingly contested. This is often due to a mismatch between the regulatory norms of global governance on the one hand, and the customary norms of governance, on the other hand. Effectively, cultural diversity within a global world raises questions with regard to validity claims of global governance norms. This class will discuss these norm contestations and how they are studied by IR scholarship. Over the past three decades norms research has become a subfield that matters beyond the boundaries of the discipline of International Relations. Like other such generative processes this subfield’s path is marked by debates over conceptual and methodological preferences.
Irrespective of how we understand these divides, the critical question for today’s norms researchers becomes: how have our understandings of norms developed over this period? To address this question this class addresses cutting edge contributions to norms research, across a diversity of issues and sub-fields, and using different epistemological perspectives. Students will especially learn about two key lenses which feature in this endeavour. The first considers the history of norm research as a series of three distinct and theoretical moves (i.e. first creating an interest in ideas and social facts in IR, then focusing on norm adaptation, and finally shifting to a view of norms as processes). And the second examines the potential of practices of interpretation and contestation (which is termed the ‘interpretation-contestation framework’) as a way of bringing together a range of theoretical tools to understand norm change, evolution, and replacement. The class will focus on the past trajectory of the field and explore how norms research continues to hold significant potential and promise both about theorizing within IR, and for studying current issues and problems in world politics.
Lernziel:
Students will familiarise themselves with the phenomenon of norm contestation. They will learn about norms research as a subfield in IR, and they will obtain the opportunity to study a wide range of cases of norm contestation. Against this background, the class will discuss the concepts of global governance within a culturally diverse global context. The class will focus on the past trajectory of the field and explore how norms research continues to hold significant potential and promise both about theorizing within IR, and for studying current issues and problems in world politics.
Vorgehen:
The class is taught according to the principle of problem-based learning. Accordingly, students will learn to work in groups both inside and outside the classroom.
Literatur:
Core Readings
- Betts, Alexander and Phil Orchard 2014, Introduction: The Normative Institutionalization-Implementation Gap. In: Betts, Alexander and Phil Orchard (eds.) Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice: 1-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Deitelhoff, Nicole and Lisbeth Zimmermann 2019, Norms Under Challenge: Unpacking the Dynamics of Norm Robustness, Journal of Global Security Studies 4(1): 2–17, doi: 10.1093/jogss/ogy041.
- Erskine, Toni 2008, Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations. In: Reus-Smit, Christian and Duncan Snidal (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Relations: 699-707. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Havercroft, Jonathan Social Constructivism and International Ethics. In: Brent J. Steele and Eric A. Heinze (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations: 116–129. London: Routledge.
- Klotz, Audie 2018, Norms in International Relations: The Struggle against Apartheid. New York: Cornell University Press, https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731655.
- Orchard, Phil and Antje Wiener (eds.) 2022 (in preparation), Contesting the World: Norms Research in Theory and Practice (under revision with Cambridge University Press).
- Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink et al. 2013, The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139237161.
- Sandholtz, Wayne and Kendall W. Stiles 2009, International Norms and Cycles of Change. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press.
- Stimmer, Anette and Lea Wisken 2019, The Dynamics of Dissent: When Actions are Louder than Words, International Affairs 95(3): 515-533, doi: 10.1093/ia/iiz019
- Wiener, Antje 2018, Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Wiener, Antje 2014, A Theory of Contestation. Berlin: Springer.
- Wiener, Antje and Uwe Puetter 2009, The Quality of Norms is What Actors Make of it - Critical Constructivist Research on Norms, Journal of International Law and International Relations, 5(1): 1-16.
NOTE: Please note that electronic weekly updates of this outline are found on OpenOLAT. It is each student’s own responsibility to obtain weekly updates.
Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen:
Leistungsanforderungen:
- FSB WiSe 14/15 (Masterzulassung ab 2014), Modul Internationale Politische Theorie (IPT1): Studienleistungen (siehe A) und ggf. Hausarbeit (siehe B)
- Wahlbereich: Studienleistungen (siehe A)
A) Studienleistungen (unbenotet):
text review, (group) presentation in class.
B) Modul(teil)prüfung FSB WiSe 14/15:
Prüfungsart: Take Home Exam
Bewertungsschema: benotet (RPO)
Umfang: 3000 Wörter
Abgabetermin: 30.09.2023
Abgabeort: OpenOLAT
Ausgabeort der bewerteten Prüfungsleistung (gegen Empfangsbestätigung nach Eingabe der Noten in STiNE): per E-mail
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