POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Internal Reconstruction, Hegemony, Free Trade

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Fernando Nunez-Mietz

Document Summary

Hegemony, power, and legitimacy: hegemony in realism: International order is imposed by the dominant state onto all the other states (which reflect the interests of the hegemon) Idea of a hegemon and unipolarity go hand in hand: hegemony can be reduced to the pursuit of a unipolar international system. Hegemony is polar opposite of an international order dominated by a balance of power: hegemony in constructivism. [constructivism: sovereignty and social control in ir. Socialization and hegemony: socialization: inducement of . The adoption of role-identities therein: three mechanisms of socialization. Normative persuasion: normative persuasion norm change policy change. External inducement: external inducement policy change (cooperation through coercion/self-interest) norm change. Internal reconstruction policy change (through imposition) norm change. Failed attempt wilson and the post-ww1 order: replace old diplomatic practices (secret diplomacy, balances of power, trade wars) with a system of collective security (multilateralism, elites in france and britain were unpersuaded. No domestic political crisis stable conservative coalitions: arid land for normative persuasion.