Norm Building in Security Spaces: The Emergence of the Light Weapons Problematic

The importance of norm development in world politics, and the role of non-state actors in their creation, have received increased attention in recent international relations scholarship. Terms such as "global civil society," "transnational social movements," "world civic politics," "transnational civil society," "issue-networks," and "epistemic communities," have all found favour with different groups of scholars as means by which to describe and study norm change and non-state actors.

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