Rhetorical entrapment and normative enticement: how the UK turned from spoiler into champion of the cluster munition ban

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• dc.contributor.author Petrova, Margarita
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-28T11:28:13Z
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• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description.abstract In 2006, Norway launched a stand-alone process to negotiate a ban on cluster munitions. The United Kingdom (UK) reluc- tantly joined the process to keep it within acceptable bounds. The UK acted as a spoiler in the negotiations. Yet, in the end, it agreed to ban all cluster munitions and became a champion of the new treaty. Why? I argue that two factors con- strained and enticed the UK to go along with the process. First, small states and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) structured the negotiations to disadvantage potential opponents. Second, NGOs also used shaming and praising to define the “desirable” UK policy. Not only did the UK accept a comprehensive ban, but it also started championing it as a result of two mechanisms—“cooperative bargaining” at the end of negotiations that led to a fair compromise and “mobilization of pride” by NGOs praising it for supporting the new norm. Whereas usually the success of weak actors in international ne- gotiations is attributed to the persuasive power of their arguments, I show that strategic action by small states and NGOs may prove crucial in engineering the conditions both for their success and the rhetorical entrapment of stronger actors, such as the UK.
• dc.description.sponsorship I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of a Marie Curie grant from the European Commission and a Max Weber fellowship from the European University Institute, with which research for this paper was undertaken.
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• dc.identifier.citation Petrova M. Rhetorical entrapment and normative enticement: how the UK turned from spoiler into champion of the cluster munition ban. International Studies Quarterly. 2016 Sep;60(3):387-99. DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqv013
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqv013
• dc.identifier.issn 0020-8833
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44363
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Oxford University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof International Studies Quarterly. 2016 Sep;60(3):387-99
• dc.rights © Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Studies Quarterly following peer review. The version of record Petrova M. Rhetorical entrapment and normative enticement: how the UK turned from spoiler into champion of the cluster munition ban. International Studies Quarterly. 2016 Sep;60(3):387-99. DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqv013 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqv013
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• dc.subject.other Bombes explosives
• dc.subject.other Municions
• dc.subject.other Armes de guerra
• dc.subject.other Gran Bretanya -- Política militar
• dc.title Rhetorical entrapment and normative enticement: how the UK turned from spoiler into champion of the cluster munition ban
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