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Lecture Two: Major Figures and Today’s DebatesApril 1, 2008
Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: Susan Strange
A little more on “power” To Strange, power has both relational and structural dimensions; it was Strange’s focus on structural power that led her to argue that state power is never unchallenged
To Strange, structural power was an absolutely central aspect of the global political economy; as with power itself, structural power has several dimensions: security, production, finance and knowledge
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We will talk much more about power laterWe will talk much more about power later
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ability to shape the rules of game in a particular area
Structural power is the ability to shape the rules of game in a particular area
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Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: Robert Keohane
Key Point Focuses on “institutions”; believes that institutions are key components of the international political economy
What is an institution? “Sets of rules and norms” that shape the behavior and actions of states (and other actors)
Institutions include formal international organizations (e.g., the UN, the WTO), international regimes or conventions (on human rights, for example), and customs or common practices
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Liberal refers to the emphasis on particular types of institutions, those that are based on liberal concepts of
cooperation, interdependence, democracy, and peaceful and humane
governance
Liberal refers to the emphasis on particular types of institutions, those that are based on liberal concepts of
cooperation, interdependence, democracy, and peaceful and humane
governance
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Debates: Robert Keohane
What’s a “liberal” institutionalist? What’s a “liberal” institution?
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Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: A Few More Points Keohane argues that, in a world of increasing interdependence, states have more reason to cooperate because cooperation is often necessary to achieve national goals
The creation of international institutions is almost always based on self-interest, but once created, international institutions and regimes may continue to operate even when national interests change
Regimes, once created, can lead to even strong cooperative behavior among states
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Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: Robert Cox
Key Point Adopts “historical materialism” as his primary framework of analysis
What is Historical Materialism? To understand the term, begin by breaking it down to its two core elements, “historical” and “materialism”: What do these two terms suggest?
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Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: Robert Cox
Historical Materialism The historical part recognizes that there are distinct historical eras, each of which operates according to a particular set of principles, rules, sensibilities, and understandings
The materialist part recognizes that the world we live in is fundamentally shaped by the ways in which production is organized; the organization of production, in other words, determines what type of social relations exist, what type of state exists, what type of educational system we have, and so on
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More on historical materialism later
More on historical materialism later
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Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: A Few More Points
While Cox labels himself an historical materialist, he also believes that ideas/ideology play a key role in shaping the world; this sets him apart from mainstream Marxists
Cox argued that all theories are, in an important sense, ideologies; encapsulated in his famous statement: “Theory is always for someone and for some purpose”
Cox also began to recognize that gender and environmental issues require separate analytical attention
Cox interested in using theory to achieve a better social order; theory must embrace and espouse emancipatory strategies
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Three Major Figures in Contemporary Debates: Summing Up
This brief discussion gives us a taste of the different approaches that are used in IPE or GPE
The field continues to evolve and develop
There are no easy answers and there is no consensus; still, “certain kinds of explanation are more powerful than other forms” (36) and the three scholars profiled in the chapter provide powerful insights and ways of better understanding the global political economy
Both students and scholars (as well as others) must be aware of the major debates and modes of analysis; an open mind is critical
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One Last PointThe authors correctly tell us that any understanding of IPE/GPE requires is guided by a set of theoretical and methodological assumptions; yet, no one framework is generally accepted as the best and no framework can be completely “objective”
With this in mind, they adopt a particular framework of analysis for their book based on six key elements
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1. Historical Change2. Structure-Agency Dynamics
3. Integration of Political-Economic Processes
4. Cognitive Structures
5. Institutionalism6. Salience of Domestic StructuresIt is important to understand each of these elements!
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What is a State? A “Wiki” DefinitionA state is a political association with effective sovereignty over a geographic area. These may be nation states or sub-national states. A state usually includes the set of institutions that claim the authority to make the rules that govern the exercise of coercive violence for the people of the society in that territory, though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it. In sociology, the state is normally identified with these institutions: in Max Weber's influential definition, it is that organization that has a "monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory," which may include the armed forces, civil service or state bureaucracy, courts, and police.
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