Week 8

Review your Classmate’s Short Paper and Basic Theories: Constructivism

Session 15: Review your Classmate’s Short Paper + Constructivism I

Required readings:

  • Checkel, Jeffrey T. “The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory.” World Politics 50, no. 2 (1998): 324-48.

Recommended readings:

  • Risse, Thomas. “’Let’s Argue!’: Communicative Action in World Politics.” International Organization 54, no.1 (2000): 1-40.
  • Risse-Kappen, Thomas. “Ideas do no Float Freely: Transnational Coalitions, Domestic Structures and the End of the Cold War.” International Organization 48, no.2 (1994): 185- 214.
  • Copeland, Dale C. “The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism.” International Security 25, no.2 (2000): 187-212
John Constable, Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset, 1821-1822. Oil on paper on canvas, 20.3 × 27.3 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Public domain.

Session 16: Constructivism II

Required readings:

  • Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change.” International Organization 52, no.4 (1998): 887-917

Recommended readings:

  • Tannenwald, Nina. “The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use.” International Organization 53, no.3 (1999): 433-68.
  • Yee, Albert S. “The causal effects of ideas on policies.” International Organization 50, 1 (1996): 69-108.
  • Payne, Rodger A. “Persuasion, Frames and Norm Construction.” European Journal of International Relations 7, no.1 (2001): 37-61.