In contemporary times, scholars have increasingly turned to the research on norms to study behavior and identity transformation in international politics. This has led to understanding stigma as attached to global actors refusing to follow normatively shared expectations of social conduct. However, the field of nuclear politics has largely ignored this research in particularly identifying how noncompliant states manage their stigmatized identities, after engaging in acts of nuclear deviance against hegemonic norms. By combining and advancing the existing literature on international political sociology, constructivist approaches in international relations theory, and nuclear governance, this paper first argues that stigma should be understood as a position of relational power dynamics that recalcitrant states occupy in contesting dominant norms. Second, it conceptualizes a new category of stigma management as stigma redaction, whereby noncompliant nuclear states occasionally engage in corrective conduct to prevent their identities being permanently cemented as rogue by dominant powers. To contextualize both these arguments, this paper examines the empirical case of India's relationship with the United States, post India's nuclear test in 1974. In doing so, it furthers our understanding of sociological deviance in international politics through an interdisciplinary lens and contributes to the field of international security studies.

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全球治理中的核污名和偏差：一项新的研究议程

当代，学者们越来越多地转向规范研究来研究国际政治中的行为和身份转换。这导致人们将污名理解为与全球行为者拒绝遵循规范的共同社会行为期望有关。然而，核政治领域在很大程度上忽略了这项研究，特别是在确定不遵守规则的国家在参与违反霸权规范的核行为之后如何管理其被污名化的身份。通过结合和推进有关国际政治社会学、国际关系理论中的建构主义方法和核治理的现有文献，本文首先认为，污名应被理解为顽固的国家在竞争主导规范时所占据的关系权力动态的位置。其次，它将一种新的污名管理概念化为污名编辑，即不合规的核国家偶尔会采取纠正行为，以防止其身份被主导大国永久巩固为流氓。为了将这两个论点置于语境中，本文考察了 1974 年印度核试验后印度与美国关系的经验案例。这样做，它通过跨学科的视角加深了我们对国际政治中社会学偏差的理解，并为该领域做出了贡献国际安全研究。