This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global politics, at the same time finding themselves demonized as pariahs and outlaws who disturb established systems of governance. However, over time, some of these actors not only manage to shake off such allegations, but even find their normative convictions accepted by international institutions. This book develops an innovative conceptual framework to understand and explain these processes, using seven cases studies in diverse policy fields; including international security, health, migration, religion and internet politics. This framework demonstrates the importance of coalition-building and strategic framing in order to form a successful resistance and bring change in world politics.

Provides a coherent, comparative framework for understanding resistance

Chapter 1: Approaching International Dissidence: Concepts, Cases, Causes.- Chapter 2: Health before Patents: Challenging the Primacy of Intellectual Property Rights.- Chapter 3: Challenging Sovereignty and State Monopoly on the Use of Force at Sea? The Operations of Private Anti-Piracy Security Provider.- Chapter 4: National Liberation Movements and the UN: Favour Won and Lost?.- Chapter 5: Delegitimization à la Carte: The 'Rogue State' Concept as a Means of Stabilizing Order in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime.- Chapter 6: Dissidence on the Internet.- Chapter 7: Protecting Religion: Muslim Opposition and Dissidence against Western Representations of Islam.- Chapter 8: Migration under Control: Sovereignty, Freedom of Movement, and the Stability of Order.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.