Moral Movements and Foreign Policy

by Joshua W. Busby

• ISBN13: 9780521125666
• ISBN10: 0521125669
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Why do advocacy campaigns succeed in some cases but fail in others? What conditions motivate states to accept commitments championed by principled advocacy movements? Joshua Busby sheds light on these core questions through an investigation of four cases - developing country debt relief, climate change, AIDS, and the International Criminal Court - in the G-7 advanced industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Drawing on hundreds of interviews with policy practitioners, he employs qualitative, comparative case study methods, including process-tracing and typologies, and develops a framing/gatekeepers argument, emphasizing the ways in which advocacy campaigns use rhetoric to tap into the main cultural currents in the countries where they operate. Busby argues that when values and costs potentially pull in opposing directions, values will win if domestic gatekeepers who are able to block policy change believe that the values at stake are sufficiently important.

Author Biography

Joshua W. Busby is an assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and a fellow with the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
States of grace	p. 1
Transnational principled advocacy movements in the post-Cold War era (1990-)	p. 17
Movement success and state acceptance of normative commitments	p. 33
Bono made Jesse Helms cry: Jubilee 2000 and the campaign for developing country debt relief	p. 70
Climate change: the hardest problem in the world	p. 104
From God's mouth: messenger effects and donor responses to HIV/AIDS	p. 151
Evaluations of actual fair share contributions to global AIDS efforts	p. 202
Mission and dominant frame of various advocacy organizations	p. 205
Reasons for foreign assistance	p. 207
Aggregating support for foreign assistance	p. 208
The search for justice and the International Criminal Court	p. 210
Additional opinion polls on support for human rights	p. 254
Conclusions and the future of principled advocacy	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 314
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