Abstract

Life cycle of international norms has its own logic of development. However,under the context of rapid development of globalization and the dominant position of sovereign state in international system, development of international norms has great linkage with the security concerns of sovereignty states.Thus, to a great extent, life cycle of international norms is determined by whether it is securitized or not. Though a‘speech2act’, an issue is securitized as a‘threat’and a related international norm will be brought out, cascaded, and internalized. There are certainly some objective elements that lay the basis for desecuritization and the erosion of international norm.The case study of the securitization of H IV /A IDS is an obvious p roof and suggests that the best choice is to p revent some issue from being securitized and to create comprehensive international norm related with these issues.

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