About seven decades of history across the entire Cold War period, the uncertain post-Cold War era, and the 9/11 and post-9/11 periods that feature a nuclear-armed North Korea, presented numerous wars and conflicts. But, as if that’s not bad enough, once in power, they are under NO obligation to stick to it at all! (1997). This synergistic condition places restrictions upon the idea that norms simply ‘decrease uncertainty’ (Kratochwil, 1989). Some of those states also share a norms-based relationship within the Association of South East Asian National (ASEAN) group. When actors’ behaviors change, due to shared expectations, what can be seen is a shift in structure within the international system. Definition of norm 1 : an authoritative standard : model 2 : a principle of right action binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior No society lacks norms … amount, in any currency, is appreciated. Average Americans and Congressional members vehemently opposed President Truman’s position on the use of atomic weapons – what is known as the Truman administration’s ‘appeasement’ of China. Sadly, it doesn’t always work as we would hope. If a societal leader within that state sought to promote a particular norm it could take hold. Its core aim is to illustrate how institutions are able to determine, manage, or regulate outcomes in the international realm that are of a social and political nature (Hall and Taylor, 1996). Canada and other states sharing similar views spearheaded the charge for the creation of an international agreement, which came to be known as the Ottawa Treaty that facilitated the banning of the use of all AP landmines. An alarming thought, although in the case of a national emergency, Parliament would things they promise to do if they are voted for and ‘campaigning’ is to try to persuade people to vote for you or your Party. Choosing the right words and the right grammar can go a long way to removing some of the unpleasantness of the message we have to deliver.Whether you’re writing to friends, colleagues or to a potential business partner, your main goal is to get your message across, in other words, to ensure the recipient understands you. ‘Muslim Mayor in Netherlands Curses Off Islamists on TV’, Clarion Project. ‘Assessing the Complex Evolution of Norms’, Kocs, (1994). In what has come to be one of the most often cited accounts of norms in world politics, Finnemore and Sikkink (1998, 891) provide a straightforward account of a norm as a ‘standard of appropriate behavior for actors within a given identity’. ‘The Sociology of Science’, in N. J. Smelser (ed. Gelpi (1997, 339) emphasis ‘norms as focal points for interpreting behavior’ as well as ‘reputational constraints’. ‘Global Norms and Major State Behavior: The Cases of China and the United States’, Gelpi, C. (1997). Norm change in the field of International Relations (IR) has been the subject of intensive research by constructivists for several decades. His statement, capturing international attention and receiving praise from London Mayor Boris Johnson centered on the idea of law extending above all people, beliefs, and (religious) practices, and argued that those unwilling to be part of the ‘we community’ should leave.States and nations are also community types and constitute social constructs. ‘Over time all norms vary with regard to communal meaning, perlocutionary effect, degree of internalization, extent of conformity, patterns of deviance, and so on’ (Raymond, 1997, 235).But despite their ability to change and the level of unpredictability that following along with this characteristic of norms, they possess considerable power and potential for ‘channel[ing] and regularize[ing] behavior; they often limit the range of choice and constrain actions’ (Finnemore & Sikkink, 1998, 894). In January 2015, following the first major Paris attacks of that year, Moroccan-born and practicing-Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, essentialized the idea of community and the further point of threat and security by referring to Dutch society as the ‘we society’ (Svirsky, 2015).