Resisting human rights through securitization: Russia and Hungary against LGBT rights

Contributing to the literature on norm resistance and backlash, this article explores the phenomenon of norm immunization, that is, the creation of legal barriers by a state with the purpose of fending off a transnationally diffusing norm by blocking its local advocacy. How do norm immunizations occur? What conditions facilitate or hinder this process? Focused on the area of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, the article’s...