Both international law triumphalists and international law critics tend to
share in common a top-down vision of international law. From this
perspective, international norms are imposed on nation-states or local actors,
and the challenge (or the fear) is the degree to which various populations
imbibe the international norm. Even the transnational legal process paradigm,
though it acknowledges an important role for non-state norm entrepreneurs,
tends to focus ultimately on the ways in which state actors internalize
international norms, thereby emphasizing a more top-down model