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ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF IPE

ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF IPE. Lecture Outline. Constructivism Feminism. Wag the Dog and Constructivism. Wag the Dog Movie Trailer: “Producing” a War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FXkj-r9Mc&feature=related. Constructivism. International relations is a social construction.

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ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF IPE

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  1. ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF IPE

  2. Lecture Outline • Constructivism • Feminism

  3. Wag the Dog andConstructivism • Wag the Dog Movie Trailer: • “Producing” a War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FXkj-r9Mc&feature=related

  4. Constructivism International relations is a social construction Historical Political Cultural Human action and meaning is the key Anarchy Alliances Institutions States IPE Structures

  5. Constitution of IR Identities Interests Institutions

  6. Major Themes in Constructivism • Change as explained by different contexts • Anarchy is a product of certain context (that is open to change) • Emphasis on social dimensions of international politics • norms, rules and language and how material and ideational factors combine in the construction of different outcomes • Emphasis on Actors and processes of interaction • Actors make choices in the process of interacting with others bringing historically, culturally and politically distinct ‘realities’ into being

  7. Feminism: Sex vs. Gender

  8. Socially Constructed Gender Attributes

  9. Major Characteristics of Feminism • Major Starting Point: Women's lives and experiences are excluded in thinking and theorizing in IR, as are female scholars (Mainstream IR = malestream IR). Major concepts are not neutrally defined. • Thinking of IR only as the high politics of war ignores the consequences of military action on the social and material survival of communities, especially of women. • Being concerned to look for women in politics leads to gender-sensitive research. Examples include: • evaluating the role of women in third world development; • the effect on security policies on women lives; • the gender-particular effects of the activities of international organizations.

  10. Recap: Mercantilism, Liberalism, Marxism

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