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Treaty Commitment And The Reconstruction Of Social Relations Among States, Youcheer Kim
Treaty Commitment And The Reconstruction Of Social Relations Among States, Youcheer Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Does states’ treaty commitment promote the inter-state socialization? A gap exists in the existing constructivist International Relations literature as to which agents could promote the internalization of constitutive beliefs through which process. This project seeks to illuminate whether states’ treaty commitments have promoted the inter-state socialization in three dimensions: (1) the convergence of voting patterns in the UN General Assembly (2) the convergence of state practices in territorial disputes (3) the emergence of rules-oriented domestic governance. I draw on classical sociology, public law theory, the English School theory, and the Transnational Legal Process theory to develop the Social Theory of …