GLOBAL NORMS

The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is the lead institution for the project, which is generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in cooperation with Compagnia di San Paolo and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The project launched in November 2012 and lasts until mid-2015. The research consortium includes partners from Oxford University, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Peking University, Fundação Getulio Vargas in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi and Central European University in Budapest... Gaining a better understanding of this dynamic is instructive because we find the open-ended and contested evolution of norms becoming increasingly common in other fields as well, with recent examples including climate change, the global trade order and the nuclear non-proliferation regime... To examine this process of norm evolution, researchers at seven academic institutions in Europe

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