POL SCI 5 Lecture Notes - Humanitarian Intervention, Liberal Democracy, Neoliberalism
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Neorealist: potential use of force is ever present in ir affects char. of state. Neoliberals: how to overcome the impediments that anarchy imposes for states hard to keep agreements even if there are common interests: both assume material interests with rational states pursuing them, role of institutions. Neoliberalism- institutions deal with market failures, there to help states what they want to do though that is assumed: this similarity is why constructivist emerged; frustrated with the limits of what ir looks at. Constructivists respond: ideas matter- need to look at ideas. Why do ideas impact behavior: material resources only acquire meaning when we distribute meaning to them. Interest international institutions intervene behavior (neo liberal institutionalist)-institution to help the common interests of states: strands of constructivism, systemic constructivism (wendt) Interaction of states create social structures that effect state behavior (mutual construction) States can create and change the structure, rather than it being there in the first place ex.
