Alan Bloomfield is the Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Shirley V. Scott is Professor of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.
This book challenges the norm dynamic literature by explicitly focusing on those who resist normative change - norm 'antipreneurs'. The utility of the norm antipreneur concept is explored through a series of case studies encompassing a range of issue areas and contributed by a mix of well-known and emergent scholars of norm dynamics.
1. Norm Antipreneurs in World Politics
2. Resisting the Responsibility to Protect
3. Resisting the Ban on Cluster Munitions
4. Resistance to the Emergent Norm to Advance Progress Towards the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
5. Rival Networks and the Conflict over Assassination/ Targeted Killing
6. Resisting the Emerging 'Humanitarian Access' Norm
7. Resisting Japan's Promotion of a Norm of Sustainable Whaling
8. Resisting the Norm of Climate Security
9. Additional Categories of Agency: 'Creative Resistors' to Normative Change in Post-Crisis Global Financial Governance
10. Contesting Private Sustainability Norms in Primary Commodity Production: Norm Hybridisation in the Palm Oil Sector
11. Whose Norm is it Anyway? Mediating Contested Norm-Histories in Iraq (2003) and Syria (2013)
12. To Boldly Go Where No Country has gone before: U.S. Norm Antipreneurism and the Weaponization of Outer Space
13. Resisting 'Good Governance' Norms in the EU's European Neighbourhood Policy
14. Norm Entrepreneurs and Antipreneurs: chalk and cheese, or two faces of the same coin?