Power, Patronage and International Norms
A Grand Masquerade
Why do some of the world's least powerful countries invite international scrutiny of their adherence to norms on whose violation their governments rely to remain in power? Examining decisions by leaders in Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Georgia, Valerie Freeland concludes that these states invited outside attention with the intention to manipulate it. Their countries' global peripherality and their domestic rule by patronage introduces both challenges and strategies for addressing them. Rulers who attempt this manipulation of scrutiny succeed when their patronage networks make them illegible to outsiders, and when powerful actors become willing participants in the charade as they need a success case to lend them credibility. Freeland argues that, when substantive norm-violations are rebranded as examples of compliance, what it means to comply with human rights and good governance norms becomes increasingly incoherent and, as a result, less able to constrain future norm-violators.
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Valerie Freeland
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.
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