POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Appeasement, Tokenism
13 Dec 2012
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The implications of anarchy are not straightforward. Constructivists: identity and social institutions define our interests: interests are socially constructed. Constructivism can lead to realist or liberal predictions- it is a different way of understanding the world. The social world is constantly changing and is constantly being reproduced. However-identities and norms are relatively stable: slow change. Provides a theory for the origin of preferences and interests. We cannot understand the world by observing it from the outside: intersubjectivity. It is better in analyzing patterns of behaviour rather then specific events. Ir has been one of the last fields to open up to feminist theories. Within political science it is till one of the fields with the smallest representation for women. What happens when we add gender to our analysis- how should this be done. What contribution does the international system have for the marginalization of women, how does the marginalization of women affect the international system.
