Socializing States

Author : Ryan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199300992
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socializing States written by Ryan Goodman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a greater specification of how international law influences relevant actors to improve human rights. It argues that states are influenced via general social processes such as cultural contagion, identification, and mimicry. These processes occasion a rethinking of fundamental regime design problems in human rights law.

Author : Alastair Iain Johnston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400852986
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social States written by Alastair Iain Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constructive engagement" became a catchphrase under the Clinton administration for America's reinvigorated efforts to pull China firmly into the international community as a responsible player, one that abides by widely accepted norms. Skeptics questioned the effectiveness of this policy and those that followed. But how is such socialization supposed to work in the first place? This has never been all that clear, whether practiced by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan, or the United States. Social States is the first book to systematically test the effects of socialization in international relations--to help explain why players on the world stage may be moved to cooperate when doing so is not in their material power interests. Alastair Iain Johnston carries out his groundbreaking theoretical task through a richly detailed look at China's participation in international security institutions during two crucial decades of the "rise of China," from 1980 to 2000. Drawing on sociology and social psychology, this book examines three microprocesses of socialization--mimicking, social influence, and persuasion--as they have played out in the attitudes of Chinese diplomats active in the Conference on Disarmament, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, the Convention on Conventional Weapons, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Among the key conclusions: Chinese officials in the post-Mao era adopted more cooperative and more self-constraining commitments to arms control and disarmament treaties, thanks to their increasing social interactions in international security institutions.

Author : Cameron G. Thies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136675477
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order written by Cameron G. Thies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do emerging states become full, functioning members of the international system? In this book, Cameron G. Thies argues that new and emerging states are subject to socialization efforts by current member states, which guide them in locating their position in the international system. Thies develops a theoretical approach to understanding how states socialize each other into and out of different roles in the international system, such as regional power, ally, and peacekeeper. The concept of state socialization is developed using role theory, a middle-range theory developed in the interdisciplinary field of social psychology. This middle-range theory helps to flesh out the theoretical mechanisms often missing in grand theories like neorealism and constructivism. The result is a structural theory of international politics that also allows for the explanation of actual foreign policy behavior by states. The foreign policy histories of the U.S. and Israel are analyzed using this theoretical approach to show how international social pressure has affected the kinds of roles they have adopted throughout their histories, as well as the kinds of roles that they have not been allowed to adopt. By considering the effects of international socialization attempts on their foreign policy behavior, Thies shows the well-known cases of the U.S. and Israel in a new light. The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order argues that the process by which states learn their appropriate roles and behaviors in the international social order is crucial to understanding international conflict and cooperation, which will be significant for those studying both theory and method in international relations, foreign policy, and diplomatic history.

Author : Ryan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190203250
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socializing States written by Ryan Goodman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that international law lacks a centralized enforcement mechanism, it is not obvious how this law matters at all, and how it might change the behavior or preferences of state actors. In Socializing States, Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks contend that what is needed is a greater emphasis on the mechanisms of law's social influence--and the micro-processes that drive each mechanism. Such an emphasis would make clearer the micro-foundations of international law. This book argues for a greater specification and a more comprehensive inventory of how international law influences relevant actors to improve human rights conditions. Substantial empirical evidence suggests three conceptually distinct mechanisms whereby states and institutions might influence the behavior of other states: material inducement, persuasion, and what Goodman and Jinks call acculturation. The latter includes social and cognitive forces such as mimicry, status maximization, prestige, and identification. The book argues that (1) acculturation is a conceptually distinct, empirically documented social process through which state behavior is influenced; and (2) acculturation-based approaches might occasion a rethinking of fundamental regime design problems in human rights law. This exercise not only allows for reexamination of policy debates in human rights law; it also provides a conceptual framework for assessing the costs and benefits of various design principles. While acculturation is not necessarily the most important or most desirable approach to promoting human rights, a better understanding of all three mechanisms is a necessary first step in the development of an integrated theory of international law's influence. Socializing States provides the critical framework to improve our understanding of how norms operate in international society, and thereby improve the capacity of global and domestic institutions to build cultures of human rights,

Author : New York (State). Department of Social Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the New York State Board of Social Welfare and the New York State Department of Social Services written by New York (State). Department of Social Services and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982130849
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated written by Robert D. Putnam and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolized a significant social change that became the basis of the acclaimed bestseller, Bowling Alone, which The Washington Post called “a very important book” and Putnam, “the de Tocqueville of our generation.” Bowling Alone surveyed in detail Americans’ changing behavior over the decades, showing how we had become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether it’s with the PTA, church, clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. In the revised edition of his classic work, Putnam shows how our shrinking access to the “social capital” that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing still poses a serious threat to our civic and personal health, and how these consequences have a new resonance for our divided country today. He includes critical new material on the pervasive influence of social media and the internet, which has introduced previously unthinkable opportunities for social connection—as well as unprecedented levels of alienation and isolation. At the time of its publication, Putnam’s then-groundbreaking work showed how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction, and how the loss of social capital is felt in critical ways, acting as a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, and affecting our health in other ways. While the ways in which we connect, or become disconnected, have changed over the decades, his central argument remains as powerful and urgent as ever: mending our frayed social capital is key to preserving the very fabric of our society.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology and Social Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the section "Book notes".

Author : United States. President's Research Committee on Social Trends
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Social Trends in the United States written by United States. President's Research Committee on Social Trends and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paged continuously. Wesley C. Mitchell, chairman."Second printing, January, 1933."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Studies in Social Progress in the Gospel of the Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheila B. Kamerman
Publisher : Philadelphia : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Services in the United States written by Sheila B. Kamerman and published by Philadelphia : Temple University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: