The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices

Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.

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Autores: Yildiz, Ezgi, Yüksel, Umut
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Palabra clave:International courts
Focal points
Regime complexity
Maritime boundaries
International Court of Justice
International law
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spelling The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practicesYildiz, EzgiYüksel, UmutInternational courtsFocal pointsRegime complexityMaritime boundariesInternational Court of JusticeInternational lawIncludes supplementary materials for the online appendix.Can international courts influence state policies and facilitate interstate cooperation? Existing literature argues that they can. Courts can make cooperative outcomes easier for states by formulating or endorsing rules around which state expectations and practice can converge. While it is widely assumed that court rulings may become focal points and play a role in harmonizing state practices, we know little about the conditions under which they have such an effect. We suggest that court rulings can often have an opposite, defocalizing effect, which may durably harm the prospects of convergence around what the law requires. We introduce defocalization as a process and discuss its possible types and implications. We argue that defocalization may be driven by incongruence of court rulings with existing treaty law and state practice and inconsistency of rulings over time. We illustrate our argument by examining the effect of key judicial rulings on the convergence of state views about the appropriate maritime delimitation rules by relying on an original dataset. Our findings show how defocalization unfolds and suggest that complexity can accumulate over time through legal rulings that are incongruent with existing state practice or treaty law, and can be maintained through inconsistent court decisions.This research was generously supported by a Spark grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant agreement No 190545) as well as by the European Research Council (grant agreement No. 740634) and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (grant agreement No. 101109832) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.Springer202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/69002http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11558-024-09545-4reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésThe Review of International Organizations. 2025;20:825-61info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101109832info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/740634© The Author(s) 2024. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/690022026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
spellingShingle The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
Yildiz, Ezgi
International courts
Focal points
Regime complexity
Maritime boundaries
International Court of Justice
International law
title_short The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
title_full The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
title_fullStr The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
title_full_unstemmed The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
title_sort The defocalizing effect of international courts: evidence from maritime delimitation practices
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yildiz, Ezgi
Yüksel, Umut
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Yüksel, Umut
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv International courts
Focal points
Regime complexity
Maritime boundaries
International Court of Justice
International law
topic International courts
Focal points
Regime complexity
Maritime boundaries
International Court of Justice
International law
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