POL SCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neoliberalism, John Locke, Democratic Peace Theory
10 Oct 2016
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Norms: standards of behaviour that are intersubjectively shared. Realism become predominant with the start of ww2, though idealism had dominated the interwar period. Responding to what neoliberalism and neorealism have in common. Becomes prominent after the end of the cold war. Focuses on ideas & norms, not just material things. On how ideas & norms (not just power & $) impact the interests and identities of states. (which is taken for granted by neorealists/liberals take for granted. The interest of those states are assumed. Not trying to explain it; under anarchy they all have same interest. Those interests are defined in material things. Rational actors maximising their interests defined for materials. They help states do what states already want to do. Constructivists think these are basically the same: too narrow of a scope to understand & explain international relations. Constructivist argument: ideas & norms help interpret material things. Material resources only acquire meaning when we give them meaning.
