Translating International Norms between the Global and the Local

拟议的Koselleck项目考察了国际规范在贸易、气候变化、人权和法治等领域作为全球和地方之间的翻译过程在世界各地的传播，特别强调了全球南方：规范如何以及在什么条件下“在全球和地方之间”翻译，导致制度和行为的不同程度的变化？拟议的项目在理论上具有创新性，因为它试图将合规和扩散研究、法律转移工作和翻译研究整合到一个统一的框架中，为各种翻译对制度和行为变化的影响制定范围条件。方法上的创新包括结合计算机化、语料库语言学和人工编码文本分析。这些新的定量内容分析方法是否适用于理解规范翻译中的意义和细微差异？从经验上看，该项目将比较国际贸易和气候变化方面的规范翻译，以及人权和法治方面的规范翻译。案例研究涉及拉丁美洲、非洲和亚洲的国家，这些国家的殖民遗产、政权类型和（有限）国家地位的程度不同，导致了不同程度的规范共鸣、法律传统、公共领域以及法律和规范多元化。

The proposed Koselleck project examines the diffusion of international norms as translation pro-cesses between the global and the local in the areas of trade, climate change, human rights, and the rule of law across world regions with a particular emphasis on the Global South: How and under what conditions are norms translated “between the global and the local,” leading to various degrees of change in institutions and behavior? The proposed project is theoretically innovative, as it seeks to integrate compliance and diffusion research, work on legal transfers, and translation studies in a unified framework to develop scope conditions for the effects of various translations on institutional and behavioral change. The methodological innovation consists of combining com-puterized, corpus-linguistic, as well as human-coded text analyses. Are these newly available quantitative content-analytical approaches suitable to understand meanings and subtle differ-ences in norm translations? Empirically, the project will compare norm translations with regard to international trade and climate change, on the one hand, and human rights as well as the rule of law, on the other hand. Case studies involve countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia varying colonial legacies, regime type, and degrees of (limited) statehood resulting in different degrees of norms resonance, legal traditions, public arenas, as well as legal and normative pluralism.