POLS 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cuban Missile Crisis, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes
13 Apr 2017
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Material action has not changed, but our constructed reality of what that action is has. The same material fact" has different consequences depending upon socially constructed relationships: us relationship with uk is friendship; us relationship with north korea is mutually hostile (but in the material world, uk has more missiles than. North korea if we were neorealists, we would find uk more threatening because of their military strength and be more hostile towards them but that"s not the case at all) Note that critics of constructivism say that when you add too much complexity to theories, they become worthless/just a description of the world. Identities, interests and norms: note: west germany united with eastern germany despite the economic costs it had, but the material didn"t matter it was their identity that mattered. The three cultures of anarchy" (wendt). (equivalent of unipolarity/bipolarity/tripolarity for neorealists: hobbesian". Hobbes" idea that human life will always be war" is not perpetual.
