Research shows that the rise of political and discursive opportunities enabled by the diffusion of progressive global norms has empowered many aggrieved local actors. Drawing on colonial victims’ transnational redress movements, I add to this literature in two ways. First, rejecting the common association between global opportunities and local movement facilitation and success, I make a counterintuitive argument that the early availability of opportunities can inadvertently hamper a movement’s efficacy in achieving its goals in the long run. Second, contrary to the implicit assumption that large-scale, high-profile transnational movements should fare better than smaller, little-known ones, I demonstrate that the latter can sometimes achieve their goals more easily than the former. In making these arguments, I show that an increasing focus in the norm literature on backlash in target states against norm promotion risks neglecting the flip side of the same coin: Global normative support inadvertently undermining the efficacy of local causes it otherwise helps publicize. Empirically, I look at three Korean colonial victim groups and their divergent paths to transnational redress.

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殖民补救和全球机遇的意外后果

研究表明，进步的全球规范的传播带来的政治和话语机会的增加，赋予了许多愤愤不平的当地行为者权力。借鉴殖民地受害者的跨国赔偿运动，我以两种方式对这一文献进行了补充。首先，我否认全球机会与地方运动促进和成功之间的共同联系，提出了一个违反直觉的论点，即机会的早期提供可能会无意中阻碍运动实现其长期目标的效率。其次，与大规模、引人注目的跨国运动应该比规模较小、鲜为人知的跨国运动表现得更好的隐含假设相反，我证明后者有时比前者更容易实现其目标。在提出这些论点时，我表明规范文献中越来越关注目标国家对规范推广的强烈反对，这可能会忽视同一枚硬币的另一面：全球规范支持无意中破坏了当地事业的有效性，而这些事业本来可以帮助宣传。我根据经验考察了三个韩国殖民受害者群体以及他们寻求跨国补救的不同途径。