POLI 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Fact, Immanuel Kant, Hedley Bull
28 Feb 2016
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1: state/society (the nature of state and society, system (the nature of the system itself, that it is anarchical, decentralized, this is a very realist point of view) Some theories operate on the level of the system. The attributes of the state shape or constrain the actions of those within it. The people who focus on international society say that it consists of shared understanding and institutions and units that will be shaped or constrained by the understanding or institutions. This approach takes large scale structures and says that they impact individual actors. They say that the system constrains or shapes. The behaviour of agents is affected by the structure. Think of a market, prices of goods, agents can"t charge too much or offer too little, but individuals create the market. Wendt: argued that anarchy is what states make of it. The nature of anarchy is not dictated by an objective force. What you as an actor think means something!
