Normative State Power in International Relations

Marjo Koivisto (Lecturer in International Relations, University of Exeter)

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English

Oxford University Press
01 September 2012

International relations; EU & European institutions; Political economy; Welfare economics

While the relationship between norms and the state is an omnipresent research theme in International Relations, most international theory - from classical liberalism to recent constructivism - continues to treat 'normative state power' as an analytical impossibility. Scholarship within the fields of human rights, global civil society, and globalization remains primarily focused on moral evaluations and the mitigation of the geopolitical power of the state. Rarely are the normative institutional capacities of the state the focus of analysis.

This book offers a new theory of normative state power in global politics. Marjo Koivisto argues that normative state power is distinct from the fiscal or military might of states. It is usually institutionalized and internalized within the state as a set of cultural norms relating to the role of statehood in local and global practice. By deploying both theoretical inquiry and substantive analysis of the Nordic model, the book offers a deep, institutionalist account of normative state power as exercised in relation to the welfare state. A case study of the internationalist networks of the Nordic states in times of economic crises (both the 1930s and 1990s) illustrates how, thanks to the persistence of normative state power, state forms tend to outlast political and economic transformations.

By: Marjo Koivisto (Lecturer in International Relations University of Exeter)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 492g
ISBN: 9780199652792
ISBN 10: 0199652791
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 01 September 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marjo Koivisto is Lecturer in International Relations at University of Exeter. During 2011, she was a post-doctoral Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Koivisto was a Michael Leifer scholar at the London School of Economics, where she completed her PhD in International Relations in 2009. She is a former Editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and convenes British Academy and British International Studies Association research networks on transforming liberal world orders and on IR as social science. She is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter.