POL 13000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Trade Organization, Martha Finnemore

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 13000
• Professor: Mckenzie Johnson

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Objectives: constructivism, social construction of meaning, anarchy in constructivism. Constructivism: (cid:862)5(cid:1004)(cid:1004) british (cid:374)u(cid:272)lear (cid:449)eapo(cid:374)s are less threate(cid:374)i(cid:374)g to the u(cid:374)ited tates tha(cid:374) 5 north. Constructivism: (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is (cid:862)so(cid:272)ially (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted(cid:863, people act toward objects, including other actors, on the basis of the meanings that the objects have for them. Constructivism: an example: sovereignty, concept based on: shared ideas and shared practices, notio(cid:374)s of (cid:862)so(cid:448)ereig(cid:374)ty(cid:863) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge o(cid:448)er ti(cid:373)e (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g (cid:374)or(cid:373)s. Ideas are shared among people (intersubjective) and expressed as practices and identities (institutionalized)-able to change over time. Constructivism and interests: formation of interests is social, actors acquire identities-relatively stable, role specific understandings and expectations about self by participating in the social systems. Interests are in part products of those identities: (cid:862)ho(cid:449) do states k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat they (cid:449)a(cid:374)t? (cid:863) (cid:894)martha fi(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:373)ore(cid:895, states are socialized to want certain things by the international society in which they and the people in them live.