The Power of Human Rights: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

By T. Risse, Steve C. Ropp, K. Sikkink. 1999

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, background): “Efforts to codify and enforce human rights have had some success curbing state violence and other threats to human life around the globe (Risse-Kappen et al. 1999).”
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing (2016, unknown): “Such exposure brings about a “norm cascade,” found in many contexts, whereby a norm diffuses across international borders, becomes taken for granted, and influences the activities of individuals and organizations around the world (Risse-Kappen et al. 1999).”
Norm advocacy: a small state strategy to influence the EU (2008, background): “First, norm advocacy is related to the power of values, norms and ideas, such as conflict prevention, and it has been particularly important in value-laden debates over human and minority rights, the environment and gender equality (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Risse et al. 1999; Prügel 1999).”
Global governance, educational change (2007, background): “Such changes could not be attributed solely to a change in the material/strategic interests of states; instead they depended on the ability of non‐state actors to make normative claims that states later adopted in order to preserve domestic and international legitimacy (Finnemore & Sikkink, 1998 ; ”
Treaty Compliance and Violation (2010, background): “…international treaties specifically, this research had alerted political scientists to the possibility that in some cases treaty ratification may be a tactical concession governments make to assuage critics that a government is “committed” to decent human rights practices (Risse-Kappen et al 1999).”