Behind the Curtain: Naming and Shaming in International Drug Control

Abstract

Human rights scholarship explores naming and shaming as an integral means of leverage against noncompliant governments. Transnational advocacy networks utilize public exposure of human rights abuses to try to influence governments, both those who are failing to live up to legal and normative commitments and those that have been standing on the sidelines as abuses are taking place (e.g., Keck and Sikkink 1998; Risse and Ropp 2013; Risse and Sikkink 1999). The results of these efforts have been mixed, leading scholars to explore the conditions under which human rights naming and shaming is more or less likely to be effective (e.g., Franklin 2008; Hafner-Burton 2008; Krain 2012; Lebovic and Voeten 2006; Lebovic and Voeten 2009; Murdie and Davis 2012; Ron, Ramos, and Rodgers 2005).