The Justice Motive in Multilateral Negotiations

PD Dr. Simone Wisotzki

doi:10.5771/9783495988459

Summary

The book examines how multiple and conflicting justice claims shape international negotiations. It conceptualizes justice as ambivalent, showing that efforts to promote fairness can also produce injustice. Theoretically, it traces human rights and state sovereignty to natural law traditions and introduces the concepts of a 'justice motive' and 'justization' to explain how states frame issues in moral terms. Empirically, it analyzes UN negotiations, including the Arms Trade Treaty and the UNPoA, as well as the International Criminal Court and conflict-related sexual violence. These cases show that justice claims can both enable cooperation and hinder agreements, making justice a central yet contested force in global governance.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-98844-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-98845-9
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Series: Friedenstheorien
Volume: 7
Language: English
Pages: 363
Product Type: Monograph

Preface No access Pages 1 - 12
1. 1.1 The Ambivalences of Justice No access
2. 1.2 The Justice Motive in Scientific Disciplines: International Law, International Political Theory (IPT) and International Relations (IR) No access
3. 1.3 “Justization” as Speech Acts and Legalized Practices No access
4. 1.4 The Justice Motive and its Effects on Norms and Global Governance No access
5. 1.5 Outline of the book No access
1. 2.1 Historical Understandings of The Justice Motive: A Genealogy No access
2. 2.2 Natural law, natural rights as standards of civilization No access
3. 1. 2.3.1 International humanitarian law: Processes of humanization and limitations No access
  2. 2.3.2 International Criminal Law: Individual Liability versus Statist Sovereignty Concerns No access
4. 2.4 Summary of the Chapter: Human Rights and Sovereignty No access
1. 1. 3.1.1 Thin Justice or Constitutionalism? The Justice Motive in International Law No access
  2. 3.1.2 Customary Law, Jus Cogens and Norms Erga Omnes No access
  3. 3.1.3 Law-Making as Interstitial Practice: Procedural Justice and Secondary Rules No access
2. 1. 3.2.1 Strong Variants of Cosmopolitanism No access
  2. 3.2.2 Cosmopolitan Positions on the Avoidance of Injustice No access
  3. 3.2.3 Anti-cosmopolitan approaches No access
  4. 3.2.4 Discourse ethics and the feminist critique No access
3. 1. 3.3.1 Justice Concepts of Early English School Theorists No access
  2. 3.3.2 Human Rights versus Sovereignty Concerns: The English School in their Solidarist and Pluralist Variants No access
  3. 3.3.3 Bridging the Gap: Introducing the Concept of Harm Conventions No access
  4. 3.3.4 The Prerogative of Democracy and Human Rights from the Perspective of Liberal Internationalists No access
  5. 3.3.5 Critical Voices against a Liberal Understanding of Justice No access
4. 3.4 Summary of the Chapter: Justice Claims and their Contestation No access
1. 1. 4.1.1 Rational choice approaches to cooperation No access
  2. 4.1.2 Regime Theory and Social Constructivism on Cooperation No access
  3. 4.1.3 The Debate on the Authenticity of States’ Communication in Negotiations No access
  4. 4.1.4 Insights from Behavioral Economics: The Socialization of the Homo Oeconomicus No access
2. 1. 4.2.1 The Ambivalence of Justice in Negotiations No access
  2. 4.2.2 Justice and its effects on the outcome of negotiations No access
3. 1. 4.3.1 Norm Research in International Relations No access
  2. 1. 4.3.2.1 International Law Perspectives on Multilateral Negotiations No access
    2. 4.3.2.2 Global Governance: Perspectives on Legitimacy and Effectiveness No access
4. 4.4 The Justice Motive as a Social Psychological Mechanism and “Justization” as a Mode of Action and Practice No access
1. 5.1 The Conceptualization of the Justice Motive No access
2. 1. 5.2.1 The Justice Motive as a Social Psychological Mechanism No access
  2. 5.2.2 Justice Claims and its Effects during Multilateral Negotiations No access
  3. 5.2.3 Justice Claims and their Effects on Negotiation Outcomes No access
  4. 5.2.4 Justice Claims and Implementation No access
3. 5.3 Methods and Materials No access
1. 1. 6.1.1 The Justice Motive in CCW Negotiations No access
  2. 6.1.2 The Humanitarian Framing of the Mine Ban No access
2. 6.2 Humanitarian Claims in the Cluster Munitions Convention No access
3. 1. 1. 6.3.1.1 The Role of the United Nations General Assembly Norm-Building Initiatives No access
    2. 6.3.1.2 Norm-Building through Sub-Regional, Regional and Other Global Initiatives No access
    3. 6.3.1.3 The Role and Relevance of Epistemic Communities and Non-Governmental Organizations No access
  2. 1. 6.3.2.1 The Humanitarian/Human Rights Motive No access
    2. 6.3.2.2 Statist Sovereignty Concerns, Norm Failure and Norm Compromises No access
    3. 6.3.2.3 The Relevance of other Justice Claims in the UNPoA Negotiations No access
  3. 1. 6.3.3.1 Humanitarian/Human Rights Claims during Implementation No access
    2. 6.3.3.2 Sovereignty Claims: Reoccurring Conflicts in Implementing the UNPoA No access
    3. 6.3.3.3 Other Justice Claims and their Relevance in the BMS and Review Conferences of the UNPoA No access
  4. 6.3.4 Norms, Justice Conflicts and the Question of Effectiveness No access
1. 1. 7.1.1 Humanitarian/Human Rights Concerns No access
  2. 7.1.2 Statist Sovereignty Concerns, Norm Failure and Norm Compromises No access
  3. 7.1.3 The Relevance of Other Justice Concerns in the ATT Negotiations No access
2. 7.2 Justice in the Implementation of the ATT No access
3. 7.3 Justice Claims and the Effectiveness of the Arms Trade Treaty No access
1. 1. 8.1.1 Early Efforts to Prosecute CRSV No access
2. 1. 8.2.1 Feminist Lawyers and their Efforts to Reframe the Discourse No access
  2. 8.2.2 Recognizing CRSV as Criminal Acts: The ITCY and the ITCR No access
  3. 8.2.3 Negotiating CRSV at Rome and the Institutionalization of the ICC No access
  4. 8.2.4 Norm Conflicts and Justice Claims at the Rome Conference No access
  5. 8.2.5 The Institutionalization of the ICC and the Implementation Process: Some Heterogeneous Results No access
3. 8.3 Summary of the Chapter No access
1. 9.1 The Effect of the Justice Motive in Multilateral Negotiations No access
2. 9.2 The Relevance of the Justice Motive for Norm Research, Global Governance and Practice Theory No access
3. 9.3 The Justice Motive as A Social Psychological Mechanism No access
4. 9.4 The Ambivalences of “Doing Justice” No access
5. 9.5 The Justice Motive and its Limitations No access
6. 9.6 Future Research: The Justice Motive and Emotions No access
Bibliography No access Pages 309 - 362