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Vetting the Advocacy Agenda: Network Centrality and the Paradox of Weapons Norms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2011

R. Charli Carpenter
R. Charli Carpenter
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Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. E-mail: charli.carpenter@gmail.com
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Abstract

While a number of significant campaigns since the early 1990s have resulted in bans of particular weapons, at least as many equivalent systems have gone unscrutinized and uncondemned by transnational campaigners. How can this variation be explained? Focusing on the issue area of arms control advocacy, this article argues that an important influence on the advocacy agenda within transnational networks is the decision-making process not of norm entrepreneurs nor of states but of highly connected organizations within a given network. The argument is illustrated through a comparison between existing norms against landmines and blinding laser weapons, and the absence of serious current consideration of such norms against depleted uranium and autonomous weapons. Thus, the process of organizational issue selection within nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations (IOs) most central to particular advocacy networks, rather than the existence of transnational networks around an issue per se, should be a closer focus of attention for scholars interested in norm creation in world politics.

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International Organization , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 69 - 102
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 2011

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