International Law - A body of rules that binds states and other agents in world
politics and is considered to have the status of law.
Customary International law - International law that usually develops slowly, over
time, as states recognize practices as appropriate and correct.
Obligation - The degree to which state are legally bound by an international rule.
High obligation rules must be performed in good faith and, if breached, require
reparations to the injured party.
Precision - The degree to which international legal obligations are fully specified.
More precise rules narrow the scope for reasonable interpretation.
Delegation - The degree to which third parties, such as courts, arbitrators, or
mediators, are given authority to implement, interpret, and apply international
legal rules, to resolve disputes over the rules, or to make additional rules.
Norms - Standards of behavior for actors with a given identity; norms define what
actions are "right" or appropriate under particular circumstances.
Norms entrepreneurs - Individuals and groups who seek to advance principled
standards of behavior for states and other actors.
, Transnational advocacy network - A set of individuals and non-governmental
organizations acting in pursuit of a normative objective.
Norms life cycle - a three-stage model of how norms diffuse within a population
and achieve a "taken for granted" status.
Boomerang model - A process through which non-governmental organizations in
one state are able to activate transnational linkages to bring pressure from other
states on their own governments.
Comparative advantage - The ability of a country or firm to produce a particular
good or service more efficiently than other goods or services such that its
resources are most efficiently employed in this activity. The comparison is to the
efficiency of other economic activities the actor might undertake, not to the
efficiency of other countries or firms.
Absolute advantage - The ability of a country or firm to produce more of a
particular good or service than other countries or firms using the same amount of
effort and resources.
Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory - The theory that a country will export goods that
make intensive use of the factors of production in which it is well endowed. Thus,
a labor-rich country will export goods that make intensive use of labor.
Protectionism - The imposition of barriers to restrict imports.
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