ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

The article offers a feminist contribution on violence and order in patriarchal societies, problematising how gender-insensitive analyses overlook important forms of violence and thus fail to fully understand both causes and dynamics of armed...

The COVID-19 crisis is also a crisis of norms. While the role of norms addressing individual behavior or the societal level in this pandemic has already attracted scholarly attention, this article analyzes the behavior of states from a specific...

In the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed in February 2022 a turning point – Zeitenwende – of German foreign policy. However, geopolitical challenges and the debate about a new German foreign policy date back to...

This contribution to the forum argues that norm research would profit from a rationalist perspective, particularly with regard to the strategic and instrumental use of norms. The article develops the concept of ‘norm-washing’ – the...

The contribution reflects on recent proposals for a multidimensional perspective on norm dynamics and discusses their added value concerningthe concept of norm clusters, which is situated as a meso-level between individual norms as the basic unit...

For some years now, norms research has been more intensively concerned with complex relationships between norms. Against this background, the article argues that the concept of norm collisions is a useful as well as necessary extension of the...

Research on international norm dynamics faces the challenge of analytically capturing the interpretations of many different actors in order to be able to account for the complexity, plurality, and changing perspectives in global politics. Recent...