Reprint. Originally published: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Norm antipreneurs in world politics / Alan Bloomfield and Shirley V. Scott -- Resisting the responsibility to protect / Alan Bloomfield -- Resisting the ban on cluster munitions / Kenki Adachi -- Resistance to the emergent norm to advance progress towards the complete elimination of nuclear weapons / Orli Zahava -- Rival networks and the conflict over assassination/targeted killing / Clifford Bob -- Resisting the emerging "humanitarian access" norm / Alan Bloomfield -- Resisting Japan's promotion of a norm of sustainable whaling / Shirley V. Scott and Lucia Oriana -- Resisting the norm of climate security / Shirley V. Scott -- Additional categories of agency : "creative resistors" to normative change in post-crisis global financial governance / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn -- Contesting private sustainability norms in primary commodity production : norm hybridisation in the palm oil sector / Helen Nesadurai -- Whose norm is it anyway? : mediating contested norm-histories in Iraq (2003) and Syria (2013) / Frank Harvey and John Mitton -- To boldly go where no country has gone before : U.S. norm antipreneurism and the weaponization of outer space / Jeffrey S. Lantis -- Resisting "good governance" norms in the EU's european neighbourhood policy / William Clapton -- Norm entrepreneurs and antipreneurs : chalk and cheese, or two faces of the same coin? / Shirley V. Scott and Alan Bloomfield.