Artikel

After fragmentation: Norm collisions, interface conflicts, and conflict management

Fragmentation, institutional overlaps, and norm collisions are often seen as fundamental problems for the global (legal) order. Supposedly, they incite conflict and disorder. However, some scholars have also emphasised functional and normative advantages of the resulting institutional pluralism. We argue that the consequences of the increasing international institutional density are conditional on whether and how different norms, institutions, and authorities are coordinated. In distinction from the fragmentation framework in international law and the regime complexity framework in international relations, this introduction outlines an interface conflict framework that enables important insights into this question and guides the contributions assembled in this issue. It zooms in on the micro-level of conflict between actors that justify incompatible positional differences with reference to different international norms. In particular, the concept of interface conflicts allows studying the conditions under which overlaps and norm collisions become activated in conflicts as well as the ways in which such conflicts are handled. Foreshadowing the main findings of the contributions to this Special Issue, we hold that interface conflicts are neither inevitable nor unmanageable. Most importantly, it seems that, more often than not, conflicts stimulate cooperative forms of management and contribute to the building of inter-institutional order.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Global Constitutionalism ; ISSN: 2045-3825 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 241-267 ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
fragmentation
coordination
global order
institutional density
international institutions
regime complexity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian
Zürn, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Cambridge University Press
(wo)
Cambridge
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1017/S2045381719000315
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian
  • Zürn, Michael
  • Cambridge University Press

Entstanden

  • 2020

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