Resistance and change in world politics : international dissidence

This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global politics, at the same time finding themselves demonized as pariahs and outlaws who disturb established systems of governance. However, over time, some of these actors not only manage to shake off such allegations, but even find their normative convictions accepted by international institutions. This book develops an innovative conceptual framework to understand and explain these processes, using seven cases studies in diverse policy fields; including international security, health, migration, religion and internet politics. This framework demonstrates the importance of coalition-building and strategic framing in order to form a successful resistance and bring change in world politics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Approaching International Dissidence: Concepts, Cases, and Causes (Svenja Gertheiss, Stefanie Herr)....Pages 1-44 Health Before Patents: Challenging the Primacy of Intellectual Property Rights (Klaus Dieter Wolf, Saskia Scholz)....Pages 45-78 Challenging Sovereignty and State Control of Violence at Sea? The Operations of Private Anti-Piracy Security Providers (Carolin Liss)....Pages 79-108 National Liberation Movements and the UN: Favour Won and Lost? (Stefanie Herr)....Pages 109-142 Delegitimisation à la Carte: The ‘Rogue State’ Label as a Means of Stabilising Order in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime (Carmen Wunderlich)....Pages 143-186 Protecting Religion: Muslim Opposition and Dissidence against Western Representations of Islam (Claudia Baumgart-Ochse)....Pages 187-213 Turnkey Tyranny? Struggles for a New Digital Order (Thorsten Thiel)....Pages 215-242 Migration under Control: Sovereignty, Freedom of Movement, and the Stability of Order (Svenja Gertheiss)....Pages 243-280 Conclusion (Svenja Gertheiss, Klaus Dieter Wolf)....Pages 281-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-310