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- 2. Lec 6: Constructivist Approaches The Discipline of Political Science Rationalism Constructivism Rationalism & Constructivism Compared “Anarchy
- 3. Lec 6: Constructivist Approaches The Discipline of Political Science Rationalism Constructivism Rationalism & Constructivism Compared “Anarchy
- 4. Before we grapple with the “constructivist” approach to IP, it is worth noting something distinctive about
- 5. Different disciplines define and organize themselves in different ways.
- 6. Historians define themselves as those who adhere to a particular methodology: the construction of narrative.
- 7. As chroniclers, they may simply hope to document the progression of events and lower the barriers
- 8. Within the discipline, they arrange themselves based on distinctions of geographic and temporal space… “I’m a
- 9. Historians are meant to be competent to discuss all the big issues within the context of
- 10. Economists define themselves according to a specific approach—a specific framework and methodology.
- 11. In general, economists attempt to explain how individuals maximize their preferences given environmental constraints.
- 12. As Barry Eichengreen (an economist) put it… Economists utilize their same “kit of tools to [explain]
- 13. The discipline of political science, by contrast, is defined rather differently from the disciplines of history
- 14. Political science is a discipline defined by its substantive concern—politics—rather than its approach or methodology.
- 15. To be a political scientist, one must study any of the many facets of politics… Political
- 16. In terms of approach, however, political science is quite pluralistic.
- 17. These substantive issues of politics are studied in any number of ways, using… Game Theory Historical
- 18. Thus, there is no distinctive “political scientific” approach. And political scientists generally import the approaches and
- 19. A critic would say that this makes political science schizophrenic and deeply fractured. But while this
- 20. This way political scientists get a range of perspectives on a narrow set of what we
- 21. Constructivism, in fact, was the product of this kind of intellectual cross-fertilization.
- 22. The Discipline of Political Science Rationalism Constructivism Rationalism & Constructivism Compared “Anarchy is what states make
- 23. While Waltz, Mearsheimer, Keohane, Axelrod, Russett, et al, come to different conclusions about IP, their approach
- 24. They all assume: Autonomous actors (states, policymakers) possess exogenously determined interests. These actors attempt to maximize
- 25. These theorists all think about states in the international system in the same way that economists
- 26. They all employ (often explicitly) the economists’ “rational choice” approach. Thus, they are sometimes called rationalists.
- 27. These rationalists explain how actors maximize their goals given various constraints. But they pay little attention
- 28. The Discipline of Political Science Rationalism Constructivism Rationalism & Constructivism Compared “Anarchy is what states make
- 29. Constructivists utilize a different approach and pursue different questions.
- 30. Constructivists want to ask: how are these actors’ all-important preferences formed in the first place?
- 31. These constructivists want to endogenize several of the elements that rationalists treat as exogneously determined.
- 32. Or, as Katzenstein and Wendt put it…
- 33. “[T]his book makes problematic the state interests that predominant explanations of national security often take for
- 34. How, then, do constructivists study and understand where identities and interests come from?
- 35. While economists may best explain how actors maximize their preferences, sociologists have the most to say
- 36. Constructivists understand identities and interests to be the product of process rather than structure…
- 37. “It is through reciprocal interaction, in other words, that we create and instantiate the relatively enduring
- 38. The Discipline of Political Science Rationalism Constructivism Rationalism & Constructivism Compared “Anarchy is what states make
- 39. According to constructivists, constructivism is not a theory or a “school” of theories. It is an
- 40. Constructivists also see “rationalism” as an approach rather than as an individual theory or school of
- 41. But the two approaches differ significantly along several dimensions…
- 42. THE RATIONALIST APPROACH The Rationalist Ontology The Rationalist Epistemology Some Differences between Rationalists
- 43. The Rationalist Ontology States’ Interests International Environment Strategies for Maximizing Interests Interstate Interactions The Building Blocks
- 44. The Rationalist Ontology States’ Interests International Environment Strategies for Maximizing Interests Interstate Interactions The Building Blocks
- 45. The Rationalist Epistemology States are assumed to enjoy (bounded) rationality States attempt to use strategies to
- 46. Here is where some of these rationalist theories differ from one another...
- 47. Some Differences between Rationalists States’ Interests Interstate Interactions The Building Blocks The Outcome Jervis: O/D Balance
- 48. THE CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH The Constructivist Ontology The Constructivist Epistemology Some Differences between Constructivists
- 49. The Constructivist Ontology States’ Interests International Environment Interstate Interactions The Products of Process The Determinative Process
- 50. The Constructivist Ontology States’ Interests International Environment Interstate Interactions The Products of Process The Determinative Process
- 51. The Constructivist Epistemology Structure (interests, environment, and strategies) cannot be understood apart from process (international interaction)
- 52. How do the constructivists differ between one another?
- 53. Constructivists may see process doing more or less work in shaping structure. Here are the two
- 54. Constructivism “Lite” States’ Interests International Environment Strategies for Maximizing Interests Interstate Interactions Constructivism attempts to explain
- 55. Constructivism “Heavy” States’ Interests International Environment Interstate Interactions Strategies for Maximizing Interests Wendt: Interaction influences all
- 56. This can be used to organize IP theories along yet another dimension, this one based on
- 57. Approach to IP Rationalism: Structure Independent of Process Constructivism: Structure Dependent on Process Constructivism “Lite” Wendt
- 58. The key issue: to what extent does structure depend on process? States’ Interests International Environment Strategies
- 59. The Discipline of Political Science Rationalism Constructivism Rationalism & Constructivism Compared “Anarchy is what states make
- 60. Alexander Wendt wants to do more than simply address the questions neglected by the rationalists. He
- 61. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his suggestion that “anarchy is what states make of
- 62. Rationalists say that, without me and my sword, there would be constant violence and war. So,
- 63. Well, actually, Mr. Leviathan, Mr. Hobbes, that’s precisely where I want to go.
- 64. Wendt contends that the structure of the international system alone is insufficient to draw the bleak
- 65. “I argue that self-help and power politics do not follow either logically or causally from anarchy
- 66. Here’s an example…
- 67. In the late 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev deliberately reshaped the rhetoric that had defined the relationship between
- 68. As Wendt would argue, structural features like the distribution of power matter less than how we
- 69. Wendt proposes that actors might “construct” several different “logics” of anarchy: Hobbesian, Lockean, and Kantian. The
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