caa a22 4500 388051426 CHVBK 20180307125054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1162/002081898550789 doi S0020818398440608 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1162/002081898550789 International Norm Dynamics and Political Change [Elektronische Daten] Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping "ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern in the field. Much theorizing about norms has focused on how they create social structure, standards of appropriateness, and stability in international politics. Recent empirical research on norms, in contrast, has examined their role in creating political change, but change processes have been less well-theorized. We induce from this research a variety of theoretical arguments and testable hypotheses about the role of norms in political change. We argue that norms evolve in a three-stage "life cycle” of emergence, "norm cascades,” and internalization, and that each stage is governed by different motives, mechanisms, and behavioral logics. We also highlight the rational and strategic nature of many social construction processes and argue that theoretical progress will only be made by placing attention on the connections between norms and rationality rather than by opposing the two. Copyright © The IO Foundation 1998 Finnemore Martha Sikkink Kathryn International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/4(1998), 887-917 0020-8183 52:4<887 1998 52 INO https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550789 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550789 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Finnemore Martha NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sikkink Kathryn NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/4(1998), 887-917 0020-8183 52:4<887 1998 52 INO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge