Adherence to International Rules from the Viewpoint of Normative Theories

The international relations theories give different viewpoints about the reason and the quality of adherence or non-adherence of international and domestic actors to rules of international system. These theories are divided into two categories on the basis of the logic of affecting the behavior conforming to the rules. In spite of the normative viewpoints of English school and theories based on legitimacy of rules, constructivism as one of the current dynamic approaches in international relations has played an important role in explaining the concept of adherence. The common point in constructivist’s viewpoints regarding the question of adherence is the concept of socialization and internalizing norms and rules but they present different mechanism about adherence, mechanism like acculturation or normative coercion and convincing.