IP NOTES 11/1

Side Category: International Law
Criminal Law
extradition is another nice concept that works in international law
-bilateral treaties are another
-usually you send people back for "political crimes"
-"extraordinary rendition"- when you go and essentially kidnap someone
Merchant Law
more like economic law here, not really political
something like contracts that are enforceable in the courts of both countries
Regime Law
different from all of the above
-it's extremely uneven, in some ways really powerful, some ways very weak
-the WTO, for instance, is EXTREMELY powerful
-but many environmental laws and organizations are pretty damn weak
Universal Declarations
random normative statements, especially from the UN
not really carrying any power to strong states
#14 Constructivism

I Constructivism: General
-Atomism
atomism- individuals are the unit actors
taken at least mostly from economics, micro especially
-Instrumentalism and Materialism
instrumentalism- behavior is a MEANS to an end
materialism- emphasis on power and wealth
-Identities and Interests Exogenous
ideas/identities, common understanding, norms SHAPE interests
constructivists dont take preferences as given, they try to explain them
constructivist idea is that the three things above are SOCIAL

Sociological Alternative
social- shit. look above

Types of Facts
-Brute Facts
-basically contextual shit. things that are OBJECTIVE
-mountain ranges are here, there is water here, etc
-Subjective Facts
-a fact which exists at the level of perceptions or misperceptions
-Social Facts
-a fact which exists solely because of inner subjective understandings
-constructivists want to say that sovereignty is an social fact
-Norms and Norm change
-people in politics believe that certain things are right and wrong
-problem is that NORMS CHANGE with time
-example, decline of colonialism
-norms are rules of appropriate behavior
-Types of Rules
-2 types
-regulative rules
-example- traffic laws
-they're good because they're necessary for safety, etc
-constitutive rules
-example- games
-football, for instance, means nothing at all without the rules
Wendt's System-Level Constructivism
Return to Idealism
-Realism v Idealism
-idealism- world politics SHOULD be this way- this is essentially bullshit
-wendt talks about realist Idealism
-he's saying that things can be real without being realist
-Normative Idealism vs realist Idealism
-normative idealism- good and bad
-realist idealism- not really sure

Three Cultures of Anarchy
Hobbesean- states are enemies
Lockean- states are rivals
Kantian- states are friends

you measure these according to the degree of institution. for some reason
the kantian idea is that if states are friends, it doesnt matter what the degree of institution is
neorealist belief- IR is essentially Lockean with a core of Kantian beliefs between certain states