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Kathryn Sikkink works on the role of ideas and norms in the international system and in domestic politics, with emphasis on the origins and effects of international human rights ideas and regimes. She is especially interested in how transnational social...

Political Science Main Office Kathryn Sikkink works on the role of ideas and norms in the international system and in domestic politics, with emphasis on the origins and effects of international human rights ideas and regimes. She is especially interested in how transnational social movements and networks have developed new norms and pressured states and international organization to change practices. Her current research focuses on the dramatic increase in international, foreign, and domestic human rights trials in the world. She was recently named a Regents Professor for the University.

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