ATS2624 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prescribed: Regime Theory, Multilateralism, Moral Authority
25 May 2018
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Global Governance – Readings – Week 3 – Constructivism
- social interaction is rule governed
- grotain approaches are norm and rule based
- international politics rather a game with rules
- conventions are the political organising principle of international organisation -
145
- conventions are norms that give rise to coordination - 146
- norms arise out of interaction and can become institutionalised as rules - 145
- conventions serve as coordination norms
- if one breaks a norm or rule a course of action will be required
- norms and rules are conceptualised as constraints - 146
- power is a social relationship - 146
- contributions to regime theory
• role of international regimes in the institutionalisation of new norms
• political authority represents a fusion of power with legitimate social
purpose - 147
- constructivism and multilateralism
• multilateralism is a generic institutional form of modern international life
- 149
- IOs are powerful because they make rules and in doing so create social
knowledge that they can deploy to define shared international tasks, create new
categories of social actors and transform definitions of interests. - 149
- regulate and construct the social world - 150
- four aspects of IO - autonomy, power, dysfunction, and change - 150
- IOS and states - not just authorities because they act to promote socially valued
goals by means that are mostly rational, impartial and non-violent - 150
- IO authority stems from three sources
• posses delegated authority
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o authoritative because they represent the collective will of their
members
o they have to be autonomous to fulfil their tasks
o states creates IOs to sort out problems
• posses moral authority because IOs serve and protect widely shared
principles
• possess expert or specialised knowledge central to legal rational
authority
- private authority in global gov
• market
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o move from politically based decision making to market based
decision making
o consequence of an actors transfer of sovereignty to private actors
• moral
• illicit
- norm diffusion
• purpose is to define the social mechanisms by which are norms are
diffused to more general acceptance in global civil society once instigated
by norm entrepreneurs
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Document Summary
Global governance readings week 3 constructivism. Grotain approaches are norm and rule based. International politics rather a game with rules. Conventions are the political organising principle of international organisation - Conventions are norms that give rise to coordination - 146. Norms arise out of interaction and can become institutionalised as rules - 145. If one breaks a norm or rule a course of action will be required. Norms and rules are conceptualised as constraints - 146. Power is a social relationship - 146. Contributions to regime theory role of international regimes in the institutionalisation of new norms: political authority represents a fusion of power with legitimate social purpose - 147. Constructivism and multilateralism: multilateralism is a generic institutional form of modern international life. Ios are powerful because they make rules and in doing so create social knowledge that they can deploy to define shared international tasks, create new categories of social actors and transform definitions of interests.
