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LISD's Gardner examines international standards of good governance
Anne-Marie Gardner, an Associate Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School's Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, has authored the article, "Beyond Standards Before Status: Good Governance and Non-State Actors." The article appears in the July 2008 issue (Volume 34, Number 3) of Review of International Studies.
Gardner’s article examines the question: Are international standards of good governance applied to sub-state actors as well as to states? By examining the international response to self-determination claims, the article demonstrates that the international community does indeed hold sub-state groups accountable to such standards. Claimant groups that have internalized human rights and democratic norms are more likely to receive international support in the form of empowerment (promoting some form of self-governance). Through a comparison of the Kosovars’ quest for self-determination with the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians’ claim, the article suggests that “standards before status” is neither unique to Kosovo nor a deviation from the pre-1999 international response to that claim.
Gardner has published and conducted research on self-determination, human rights, and causes of conflict, including publishing in International Peacekeeping on the role of international law in the Western Sahara self-determination conflict, and co-editing a volume on human rights, The Globalization of Human Rights, with Michael Doyle and Jean-Marc Coicaud. Her areas of research interest include new dimensions of state sovereignty and international standards for good governance; the interaction of international law and politics; causes of conflict and conflict resolution, including intra-state conflict and “new” security threats; and the role of non-state actors, ideas, and norms in international relations.
Gardner’s article examines the question: Are international standards of good governance applied to sub-state actors as well as to states? By examining the international response to self-determination claims, the article demonstrates that the international community does indeed hold sub-state groups accountable to such standards. Claimant groups that have internalized human rights and democratic norms are more likely to receive international support in the form of empowerment (promoting some form of self-governance). Through a comparison of the Kosovars’ quest for self-determination with the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians’ claim, the article suggests that “standards before status” is neither unique to Kosovo nor a deviation from the pre-1999 international response to that claim.
Gardner has published and conducted research on self-determination, human rights, and causes of conflict, including publishing in International Peacekeeping on the role of international law in the Western Sahara self-determination conflict, and co-editing a volume on human rights, The Globalization of Human Rights, with Michael Doyle and Jean-Marc Coicaud. Her areas of research interest include new dimensions of state sovereignty and international standards for good governance; the interaction of international law and politics; causes of conflict and conflict resolution, including intra-state conflict and “new” security threats; and the role of non-state actors, ideas, and norms in international relations.