Reconciliation as a norm diffusion mechanism: the case of Japan and human security.
How do global actors initiate and respond to normative development? Constructivist scholars have identified and investigated mechanisms such as persuasion and contestation that actors utilize to engage in the process of norm diffusion. These mechanisms assume that a single norm will ultimately preva...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Review Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 549 - 578 |
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