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Valerie Freeland is a policy analyst with the Government of Manitoba, and a former professor or postdoctoral fellow at Athabasca University, the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, the University of Regina, Simon Fraser University, Loyola University-Chicago, and Wheaton College. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2015.
'A clever and subtle account of the strategies of very weak countries to benefit from international norms and institutions on their own terms. Valerie Freeland brings these countries into the theoretical mainstream and explains how normative elements of the state system itself are potent instruments of domestic and international influence for leaders of these countries.' William Reno, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University 'A much-welcome addition to international norms scholarship. Drawing on rich empirical evidence gathered during extensive fieldwork in Georgia, Sierra Leone, and Georgia, Valerie Freeland convincingly argues that a conscious decision by state leaders to ignore norm violations can risk the norms' erosion but-more importantly-also helps to maintain the international rules-based order.' Nina Reiners, Associate Professor for Human Rights and Social Sciences, University of Oslo
