Cooperation in international organizations (IOs) is sustained by the socialization of state agents and their internalization of the organizations’ norms and identity. This article builds on a structured comparison of the scope conditions for socialization among permanent representatives in two organs of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—the Political and Security Committee (PSC) and the North Atlantic Council (NAC). In this study, we present some unexpected findings: First, the NAC is experiencing greater internalization (stronger socialization) than the PSC, normally held as a critical case of international socialization. Second, unambiguous norms favour socialization to a larger degree than ambiguous norms, refuting a widely held assumption about the pro-internalization effect of diffuse norms. Given that member states seem to grant their representatives larger “room for manoeuvre” when the norms of the IO have material stakes, the socialization effect of an IO’s norms is dependent on the perceived utility of the organization’s mission.

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国际组织社会化的条件：比较欧盟和北约常驻代表委员会

国际组织 (IO) 中的合作是通过国家代理人的社会化及其对组织规范和身份的内在化来维持的。本文基于对欧盟和北大西洋公约组织两个机构——政治与安全委员会 (PSC) 和北大西洋理事会 (NAC) 的常驻代表之间社会化范围条件的结构化比较。在这项研究中，我们提出了一些意想不到的发现：首先，NAC 正在经历比 PSC 更大的内部化（更强的社会化），通常被视为国际社会化的一个关键案例。其次，与模糊规范相比，明确规范在更大程度上有利于社会化，驳斥了普遍存在的关于扩散规范有利于内化效应的假设。