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Introduction. Presenting the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a Norm

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This chapter discusses the origins of the transparency in extractive industries norm, what it entails and what the puzzles are in studying it. It reflects on the limitations of the norm literature to capture the intricacies of emerging international norms and the need to develop new models of analysis. It also provides an overview of this book as well as insights on its methodology and case selection.

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    For more information on the Kimberley Certification Process, see https://www.kimberleyprocess.com/en/about. Accessed on July 28, 2016.

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    For more information on the Santiago Principles, see http://www.ifswf.org/santiago-principles-landing/santiago-principles. Accessed on July 28, 2016.

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    Scholars have written on the role of norms in reduction of transactions costs (Krasner, 1983a), communication of international politics (Kratochwil, 1989), and state identity (Finnemore, 1996; Katzenstein, 1996b).

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    ‘More openness and public scrutiny of how wealth from a country’s extractive sector is used and managed is necessary to ensure that natural resources benefit all’ (EITI International Secretariat, 2016).

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    In the edited volume, Bringing Transnational Relations Back In, Risse-Kappen (1995b) has also described other forms of domestic structures, stalemate and state-dominated, however, they were considered irrelevant to the case studies discussed in this book, since these concepts refer to domestic structures relevant to other countries beyond the scope of this study.

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Tskhay, A. (2020). Introduction. Presenting the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a Norm. In: Global Norm Compliance. Norm Research in International Relations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41452-8_1

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