international order Flashcards
what is int’l order
Reus-Smit: “global organization of political authority”
Held together by ‘institutions’
Sets of rules, norms, and practices that shape actors’ identities and regulate their behavior
International Institutions / Regimes
Sets of commonly-held rules or norms about how states ought to behave in a given situation
Intersubjective
People act and talk as if it exists, even if they don’t like it or believe it should not exist
Regulative norms
regulate already existing activities
Constitutive norms
create possibility of certain activities
Order today
Sovereign states (UN membership), international organizations, treaties, international law
Bukovansky - sovereignty
- Royal authority vested in the person of the monarch, no “national” interest but monarchical interest
- Rise of Enlightenment thought, inc. legitimacy comes from will of the people, and the people make up a ‘nation’
- american + French rev’ part of legitimation contest that led to changes in int’l order
finnemore - purpose of intervention
military intervention
- Some uses of force are seen as legitimate
- Which aims are seen as legitimate changes over time
human intervention
- ## deploying military force across borders for the purpose of protecting foreign nationals from manmade violence
reus-smit - absolutist Europe
- divinely ordained social order
- dynastic sovereignty
- authoritative justice
reus-smit - modern society
- no rigid social order (individualism)
- liberal sovereignty
- legislative justice
democratic peace phenomena - liberalism
democracies dont go to war with each other
realists - why war
war reflects the distribution of power
norm of reciprocity
behaving on the basis of how someone behaves to you
