Oxford Scholarship Online: International Norms and Cycles of Change

International Norms and Cycles of Change Sandholtz, Wayne Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine Stiles, Kendall Associate Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538008-8 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380088.003.0003
Chapter 3 The End of Conquest: Consolidating Sovereign Equality Brook Gotberg This chapter presents a set of case studies to examine the cycle theory of international norm change with respect to rules on conquest. Each case represents a key cycle of norm change. The cases include Germany's 1870 annexation of Alsace-Lorraine; World War I; Japan's transformation of Manchuria into puppet state “Manchukuo” during the early years of the League of Nations; the Nazi invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland leading up to World War II; North Korea's 1950 invasion of South Korea at the beginning of the Cold War; and the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait at the Cold War's end. Keywords: international norms, conquest, norm change, Alsace-Lorraine, World War I, Manchuria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Korea, Kuwait, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380088.003.0003