Implementation and World Politics How International Norms Change Practice

Alexander Betts, Associate Professor, Department of International Development,, University of Oxford,Phil Orchard, Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland

Alexander Betts' research focuses on the international politics of refugees, migration, and humanitarianism, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. His recent books include Forced Migration and Global Politics (2009), Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (2009), Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, 2010), Global Migration Governance (2011), UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, 2012), and Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (2013). He has worked as a consultant to UNHCR, OCHA, UNDP, IOM, UNICEF, and the Council of Europe. He has also held teaching and research positions at Stanford University, the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is Director of the Refugee Studies Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.

Phil Orchard holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and previously worked as the Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons. His research focuses primarily on international efforts to provide institutional and legal forms of protection to civilians and forced migrants. He is the author of A Right to Flee: Refugees, States, and the Construction of International Cooperation (2014). His work has been published in Global Governance, International Affairs, and the Review of International Studies, among other journals. He is Lecturer in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, where he directs the Masters in International Studies program, and a Research Associate with the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

1. Introduction: The Normative Institutionalization-Implementation Gap, Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard
Part I: Treaty Norms
2. From Persecution to Deprivation: How Refugee Norms Adapt at Implementation, Alexander Betts
3. Transnational Advocacy and Accountability: From Declarations of Anti-Impunity to Implementing the Rome Statute, Michael Bluman Schroeder and Alana Tiemessen
4. The Unimplemented Norm: Anti-Mercenary Law and the Problems of Institutionalization, Sarah Percy
5. International NGOs and the Implementation of the Norm for Need-Based Humanitarian Assistance in Sri Lanka, Urvashi Aneja
Part II: Principled Norms
6. Implementing a Global Internally Displaced Persons Protection Regime, Phil Orchard
7. Implementing the 'Responsibility to Protect': Catalyzing Debate and Building Capacity, Jennifer M. Welsh
8. China as a Global Norm-Shaper: Institutionalization and Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect, Brian L. Job and Anastasia Shesterinina
9. Peacekeeping in the Congo: Implementation of the Protection of Civilians Norm, Emily Paddon
Part III: Policy Norms
10. Engineering Policy Norm Implementation: The World Bank's Transparency Transformation, Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis
11. From Principle to Policy: The Emergence, Implementation and Re-Articulation of the Right to Post-Conflict Property Repossession, Miriam Anderson
12. The Implementation of 'Integrated Approaches' in the UN System: Lessons from Tanzania and Burundi, James Milner
13. Institutionalizing and Implementing the Disaster Relief Norm: The League of Red Cross Societies and the International Relief Union, Scott D Watson
14. Status Determination and Recognition, Anna Schmidt
15. Conclusions: Norms and the Politics of Implementation, Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard