Why and how do Southern countries conceive norms in the field of international aid and cooperation in an attempt to craft a symbolic regime that challenges Northern-oriented development agendas? To answer this question, this article engages with the literature on the life cycle of norms and goes beyond the earlier concepts of cascade, localisation, subsidiarity, reluctance, rejection, and contestation. As it considers the international–domestic nexus as the main catalyst for norm conception, this paper contributes to the existing literature on norm circulation by providing a more nuanced and context-led analysis of Southern countries’ normative role. In building upon the dialectics between international and domestic politics, this paper refutes the simple norm-taker/norm-maker dyad wherein the former is regarded as the South’s only possible role. Written from a Southern perspective, this paper also explores a range of channels, mechanisms, and platforms that Southern actors mobilise to create and diffuse their development cooperation norms both regionally and globally.

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国际发展合作中的南方国家：从竞争到规范构想

南方国家为何以及如何制定国际援助与合作领域的规范，以试图打造一个挑战北方发展议程的象征性制度？为了回答这个问题，本文结合了有关规范生命周期的文献，并超越了早期的级联、本地化、辅助性、不情愿、拒绝和争论的概念。由于它认为国际-国内关系是规范概念的主要催化剂，因此本文通过对南方国家的规范角色进行更细致和以背景为导向的分析，为现有的规范流通文献做出了贡献。在建立国际和国内政治之间的辩证法的基础上，本文驳斥了简单的规范接受者/规范制定者二元组，前者被认为是南方唯一可能的角色。