The Politics of Leverage in International Relations: Name, Shame, and Sanction

From campaigns against genocide to efforts against money laundering, governments, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations have attempted to change the behaviour of targeted actors through the public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal commitments. Despite the prominence of such efforts, the nature and impact of social sanction in international politics remains highly contested.This unique collection unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming. Drawing on a diverse range of issues and theoretical controversies in the International Relations and Human Rights literatures, the contributors to this collection explore the ways in which state and non-state actors wield public exposure as an instrument of leverage and combine it with material sanction, the contextual factors that shape these combinations, and the conditions that generate effective pressure.This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in international relations, human rights, the diffusion of global norms, transnational crime, targeted sanctions, corporate social responsibility, and the dynamics of leverage in international politics.

This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attempt to change the behaviour of targeted actors through public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal commitments.

H. Richard Friman is Eliot Fitch Chair for International Studies, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for Transnational Justice at Marquette University, USA. His recent books include Crime and the Global Political Economy (2009) and Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans edited with Simon Reich (2007).

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Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Unpacking the Mobilization of Shame; H. Richard Friman

PART I: REVISITING HUMAN RIGHTS NAMING AND SHAMING

2. Caught at the Keyhole: The Power and Limits of Shame; William F. Schulz

3. Human Rights Naming and Shaming: International and Domestic Processes; James C. Franklin

4. Mobilizing 'Third-Party Influence': The Impact of Amnesty International's Naming and Shaming; Dongwook Kim

5. Promoting Accountability, Undermining Peace? Naming and Shaming in Transitional Justice Processes; Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm

PART II: NAMING AND SHAMING BEYOND HUMAN RIGHTS

6. Ain't That a Shame? Hypocrisy, Punishment and Weak Actor Influence in International Politics; Joshua W. Busby and Kelly M. Greenhill

7. Naming and Shaming in Financial Regulation: Explaining Variation in the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering; Mark T. Nance

8 Behind the Curtain: Naming and Shaming in International Drug Control; H. Richard Friman

9. UN Targeted Sanctions as Signals: Naming and Shaming or Naming and Stigmatizing?; Thomas Biersteker

10. Shaming the Shameless? Campaigning against Corporations; Virginia Haufler

11. Conclusion: Exploring the Politics of Leverage; H. Richard Friman