Verification on the Process of International Socialization— Case Study on Internalization of Norms of International Human Rights into the Philippines

• Main Authors: MichinoriShiroma, 城間道則
• Other Authors: Hsin-Chih Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6gjuqz

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 政治經濟研究所 === 102 === The Collapse of the Soviet Union has brought the U.S. unipolar world that accelerated the globalization promoting open economy and interchanges of human, material resources, and information. The globalization, however, has also brought some new kinds of threats. To take measure to meet the contemporary international environments, the international cooperation through the international institutions has become a major subject of studies within scholars again. Why do states follow norms of international institutions? How do norms influence the decision making process of policy makers? To answer these reasons of states behavior, some scholars take a step from international socialization approach. There are several kinds of socialization approach, however, each approach has its weak points. Moreover, at present, there are few reseaches focusing deffrences in levels of compliance with norms of international institutions between states. To this, some scholars claim that three kinds of domestic factors (domestic structure, normative fit, and crisis) may influence the process of international socialization. Therefore, this article not only analyzes a process of international socialization by combining six kinds of approaches into a comprehensive one, but also tries to analyze how the three domestic factors influence the process of international socialization by examining the process of which the Philippines internalize the norms of international human rights into domestic norms. Through the process tracing analysis, this article finds that although two kinds of driving forces (peer pressure and U.S. hegemony) have enough capability to promote the international socialization, there is limit of ability to accomplish its process, because three domestic factors may turn into blocking factors under specific conditions. Moreover, these three domestic factors may also cause a backlash phenomenon, and lower the level of state compliance with norms of international human rights.