POLS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Michel Foucault, Human Security, Expansionism

• School: Mount A, MtA
• Department: Politics And International Relations
• Course: POLS 2301
• Professor: James Devine

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Inter-subjective understanding: shared beliefs about objects or relationships. Ideas matter: how we understand world shapes how we interact with it, e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: gor(cid:271)a(cid:272)he(cid:448)"s (cid:374)e(cid:449) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g. Realists and liberals assume objective reality and that ideas reflect conditions. Identity: relatively stable, role specific understanding and expectations. Examples: united states: leader of the free world, canada: liberal peacekeeper. Institutions: relatively stable set of identities and interests and norms: may have formal rules but not necessarily, constitutive and regulatory rules, fundamentally cognitive (shared ideas about how to act, may be competitive rather than cooperative. Structure of the system: society (social institutions with constitutive and regulatory rules) Morality: socially constructed, focus on identity and norms of appropriateness, what is the right thing to do in a given particular identity and a specific. Human nature context: socially constructed (can improve) constructivist methodology. Realists a(cid:374)d li(cid:271)eral"s separate age(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d stru(cid:272)ture a(cid:374)d fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) ea(cid:272)h i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduall(cid:455)