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I. (Ruggie, 1982) International Regimes, Transactions, and change: Embedded

liberalism

3 main arguments:

1. tructure o! "olitical authorit#: "o$er "lus legitimate social "ur"ose

2. International economic regimes "ro%ide the en%ironment that hel"s states

determine $hat &inds o! transaction !lo$s !it the "o$er ' "ur"ose o! the regime.3. T$o "otential sources o! change: "o$er and social "ur"ose ( do not necessaril#

co%ar#)

ocial "ur"ose matters more than s"eci!ic hegemon in sha"ing character o! $orld

economic regime. ost II regime is embedded liberalism (multilateral

and domestic inter%entionism). *orm+go%erned change is more common than

!undamental discontinuit#- $ith shi!ting "o$er distribution.

e#$ords: Intersub/ecti%e, embedded, legitimate social "ur"ose

Read $ith0 (olan#i, 21) ra$s on s"eci!icall# !or idea o! embedded and disembedded

economic orders

Read against: (alt, 21)II. (Ruggie, 1998) hat 4a&es the orld 5ang Together6 *eo+7tilitarianism and the

ocial onstructi%ist hallenge

1. onstituti%e %s. regulati%e rules

2. Ideational causation

3. ollecti%e intentionalit#

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Read $ith: (ur&heim 5alls, 198) and (eber, ;erth, 4ills, 19ree ress.

>innemore, 4., i&&in&, . (1998). International *orm #namics and olitical hange.International Organization, 52(), 88?+91?. doi: 1.11@2A281898


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>or Benin not distinct s#stem and sub+categories (!or Benin the state is ca"tured)

Babor as commodit# (olan#i $rote about !ictionalied as"ect o! labor as commodit#)

ENuilibrium bet$een com"onents

allerstein L el!are state distributes enough to &ee" re%olution at ba#

$hile oF L sa#s core states ado"t counter+hegemonic ideas to sta%e o!! re%olution

Ba&e L s#stem is more hierarchical than anarchicaltates can band together to esca"e the danger o! state o! nature, can o"t !or hierarch# L re"lace

coercion b# authorit#

authorit# is relational L mutual consent

hierarchal: based on legitimac# and bargaining L bet$een a dominant and subordinate

regional hierarchies

Economic and militar# indicators as measurement o! hierarch#: %ar#ing degrees. 7 hierarch#.

rasner: statist image L state is autonomous actor and cannot be reduced to summation o! "ri%ate

desires. till unitar# actor L !rom "resident as !inal decider

Cbsence o! "ri%ate interest on national beha%ior L go%ernment has o$n "articular interests andgoals (material or ideological goals). tate is $hole o! interest.

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