Norm Reproduction in the School of DRM

Abstract

This chapter examines the interaction between international and regional organizations and how this creates particular roles that reproduce the global DRM model.¹ When an individual or an organization acts out a global model, the set of norms embodied within that model is reproduced. This is essential for the existence of a norm that would cease to exist if it were not practiced by its recipients. Thus, following the logical thread in the previous two chapters — that established the existence of a global DRM model (Chapter 4) and described its diffusion (Chapter 5) — this chapter examines how this model, once diffused, is maintained through intersubjective exchange. This reproduction of the global model is achieved through a hierarchical relationship between the receiver and the teacher of DRM norms (see Finnemore, 1993).² The ‘student’ of norms will practice and attempt to mimic the ‘teacher’, while the teacher will tell the student what type of acceptable behaviour is warranted in the area of DRM.