Dynamics of norm contestation in the Chemical Weapons Convention: The case of 'non-lethal agents
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395720904605" target="_blank" >10.1177/0263395720904605</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dynamics of norm contestation in the Chemical Weapons Convention: The case of 'non-lethal agents
Original language description
In this article, we use an adapted version of Wayne Sandholtz's cycle of normative change to examine the dynamics of contestation of norms against incapacitating chemical agents and riot control agents, often imprecisely grouped together under the term 'non-lethal chemical weapons'. We draw on a concept-driven analysis of statements and in-depth interviews with individual stakeholders to track the gradual development of the issue towards norm change within the Chemical Weapons Convention. Our findings highlight several key factors conducive to normative change, particularly the role of the Dubrovka incident as the 'deviant event', discursive decoupling of the two classes of chemicals, and new framing and 'rebranding' of incapacitating chemical agents as 'CNS-acting chemicals'. At the same time, we also examine factors that significantly slowed down attempts by norm entrepreneurs to attract attention to the issue, such as the saliency of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, which effectively sidelined the problem of 'non-lethal' agents in the overall debate.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politics
ISSN
0263-3957
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
428-443
UT code for WoS article
000512249200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85079469189