英文摘要 |
International norms diffusion is an important issue by which we explore how the international social norms have shaped national preferences, interests, and behaviors, as well as the constitution of shared knowledge in the international community. Taking largely from human rights case studies, existing findings on international norms diffusion have mainly suffered from linear thinking and difficulties in explaining noncompliance of international norms. Analyzing the transfer of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management into Taiwan’s domestic law, we concluded that international organizations and non-governmental organizations function extremely weakly in Taiwan’s international norms adoption process. Governmental organizations with professional scientific knowledge have assumed limited roles as technologies advisors, ignorantly overlooking the international safety norms. Attentions to the international nuclear safety norms were distracted by Taiwan’s antinuclear calls. As a result, despite IAEA’s success in pushing Taiwan to comply with the nuclear safeguard norms, domestic factors and limited effectiveness of the transnational advocacy network have unexpectedly made Taiwan an alien country in international nuclear safety norms diffusion. |