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How are global norms translated into local contexts? I examine the translation of three rule-of-law norms in postconflict Guatemala: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the right to access public information, and best practices for international rule-of-law commissions. These cases, I argue, do not fit established models for diffusion, such as those associated with standard bargaining approaches, norm socialization frameworks, and norm localization theory. Instead, rule-of-law promotion triggered domestic contestation and, subsequently, what I term an “interactive translation loop.” These processes changed the modes of interaction among rule-of-law promoters and how the norms ultimately translated into the Guatemalan context. I demonstrate that a critical variable, the precision of international norms, conditions the leeway available for such translations. To the extent that my framework travels to other cases, it offers an important corrective to established theories of how global norms translate into local contexts.
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186139
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This study explores the conditions under which China complies with the international norms of banning the trade in endangered species using tiger bones and ivory cases. Why did China ban the ivory trade but attempt to allow the trade in tiger derivatives? The authors traced the key policies formulated by Chinese policymakers during 1981–2018. Drawing upon norm localization theory, the authors find that domestic policy preferences played a key role in linking domestic and international norms. Chinese policymakers actively chose ideas to advance their policy preferences, and this localization process reaches beyond a static fitting process between domestic-international norms. This finding has implications for wildlife policies in developing countries and sheds light on China’s wildlife policy development following the outbreak of coronavirus.
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