Competition Legitimacy And International Norms Metamorphosis

Based on Ryder McKeown's study that the corrosion of the legality ofinternational norms can influence the degradation of international norms andFinnemore Martha and Kathryn Sikkink's study in international norms of power andpolitical change that the World Time–atmosphere plays an important role in therecession of old norms and the rise of the new norm, this paper proposes that thecompetition mechanism of the international norms can explain the corrosion of thelegality of international norms, with the world Time-the environment into thedegradation mechanism. The competition is the independent variables, whereas thelegitimacy of international norms as the intervention variable. In the stronger sense,the linear causal chain of competition to degradation is seen as a collection ofuniversal social mechanism. The mechanism-process model of competition,legitimacy and the veto points is being in the life trajectory among all the internationalnorms, and constitutes a permanent Inflection point for international change(evolution/degradation).