POL SCI 139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Multilateralism
8 Nov 2016
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Sovereignty has now changed > as responsibility to citizens, restrained. Leads to norms where they may not communicate. Epistemic communities: colonize state apparatus to change opinion. Prior to r2p in 1990 > care about others (non-white, non-christian, weaker countries) Socialization (constructivism): between states making them uphold r2p or fear of a rogue state > possibility of taking away legitimacy through conformity. Example) ngos and land-mines, also establishment of international norms. Utilization of persuasion: change of values and empathy. Empathy from the media > us intervention in somalia for famine. Came in for humanitarian reasons > force from somalia as a response to military in cities. Departure from somalia from somalian media pictures of dead and imprisoned americans. Empathy as a role of changing behaviors of states - cnn factor . Change in international law to change behavior to take away land-mines. Demonstrates that state behavior can be changed by common folk.
