CA: Sage, 1987) is a cornerstone work for these scholars. For a review of this liter-
ature from an IR perspective, see Martha Finnemore, “Norms, Culture, and World
Politics: Insights from Sociology’s Institutionalism,” International Organization vol.
50, no. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 325–47.
7 John Boli and George Thomas, eds, Constructing World Culture: International Non-
governmental Organizations Since 1875 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
8 See, for example, John Boli, “Human Rights or State Expansion: Cross-National Def-
initions of Constitutional Rights, 1870–1970” and “World Polity Sources of Expand-
ing State Authority and Organization, 1870–1970,” both in Thomas et al.,
Institutional Structure; Francisco Ramirez, Yasemin Soysal, and Suzanne Shanahan,
“The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of
Women’s Suffrage Rights, 1890–1990,” American Sociological Review vol. 62
(1997), pp. 735–45; Yasemin Soysal, Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postna-
tional Membership in Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
9 These scholars would also argue that rational choice and instrumental calculations of
costs and benefits are, themselves, cultural construct peculiar to “modernity.” See, for
example, John W. Meyer, John Boli, and George Thomas, “Ontology and Rational-
ization in the Western Cultural Account,” in Thomas et al., Institutional Structure.
10 For discussion of the many varieties of liberal theory, see Mark Zacher and Richard
Matthews, “Liberal International Theory: Common Threads, Divergent Strands,” in
Charles Kegley, ed., Controversies in International Relations Theory (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1995); Robert O. Keohane, “International Liberalism Reconsidered,”
in John Dunn, ed., Economic Limits to Modern Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1990); Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (New York: W. W.
Norton, 1997).
11 Jean-Jacques Rousseau stresses similar processes in Emile, or On Education (New
York: Basic Books, 1979).
12 The academic literature on activists has discussed this explicitly. See Margaret Keck
and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1998); Thomas Risse, Stephen Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds, The Power of
Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1999). Note that a similar engagement of emotion is used by
activists promoting other causes, for example environmental protection. See Paul
Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (Albany: State University
of New York Press, 1996).
13 Fareed Zakaria, “The Rise of Illiberal Democracy,” Foreign Affairs vol. 76, no. 6
(November–December 1997), pp. 22ff.
14 For an extended discussion, see Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for
the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2004), esp. chap. 2.
15 Thomas Franck, The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations (New York: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 1990). For a more extended discussion of this problem, see Martha
Finnemore and Stephen J. Toope, “Alternatives to ‘Legalization’: Richer Views of
Law and Politics,” International Organization vol. 55, no. 3 (Summer 2001), pp.
743–58.
16 Richard Price, “Reversing the Gunsights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land-
mines,” International Organization vol. 52, no. 3 (Summer 1998), pp. 613–44.
17 Deng, “The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Development of
International Norms,” Chapter 9 in this volume.
18 See, for example, Muggah, “Moving Forward?” Chapter 2 in this volume.
19 See, for example, Reno, “Small Arms, Violence, and the Course of Conflicts,” and
Koh, “A World Drowning in Guns,” Chapters 3 and 4 in this volume.
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