With the shift from a unipolar world to a multipolar one, understanding the interactions between strong powers and norms, norm violations, and norm shifts is important.
Despite many years of focus on this topic, scholars have not yet come to a complete understanding of how or why norms emerge and evolve or change over time.
While democratic or liberal-democratic states have championed positive norms, they have also taken-up targeted killings which defy long-established conventions.
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