Document Type
Article
Journal Title
Virginia Journal of International Law
Volume
55
First Page
187
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This Commentary recognizes a policy shift across nations of favoring national security over human rights and argues that smaller states were influenced by the key international decision makers, the Permanent Five Members (P5) of the United Nations Security Council, via norm diffusion. In doing so, it offers an alternative theory for how and why human rights norms have consistently been violated in the pursuit of security. Oppressive regimes have used the term “counterterrorism” or “national security” to justify rights violations because they see larger powers allowing these violations. This Commentary contends that the P5 are responsible for beginning this phenomenon and in doing so created a paradigm shift in the types of norms that are diffused globally, resulting in “negative norm diffusion.”
Recommended Citation
Catherine Moore,
The Game Changer: How the P5 Caused a Paradigm Shift in Norm Diffusion Post-9/11,
55
Virginia Journal of International Law
187
(2014).
Available at:
https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/all_fac/975