Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I International Institutions as Community Builders
- Part II The Socializing Power of European Institutions
- Part III Critique, Conclusions, and Extensions
- 7 Conclusions and Extensions: Toward Mid-Range Theorizing and Beyond Europe
- 8 Getting Socialized to Build Bridges: Constructivism and Rationalism, Europe and the Nation-State
- Index
- References
7 - Conclusions and Extensions: Toward Mid-Range Theorizing and Beyond Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I International Institutions as Community Builders
- Part II The Socializing Power of European Institutions
- Part III Critique, Conclusions, and Extensions
- 7 Conclusions and Extensions: Toward Mid-Range Theorizing and Beyond Europe
- 8 Getting Socialized to Build Bridges: Constructivism and Rationalism, Europe and the Nation-State
- Index
- References
Summary
The purpose of this essay is to reflect on the core analytical claims that the other chapters in this volume make about the processes and conditions under which socialization of state agents occurs in Europe, and to ask how these arguments could be extended, clarified, retested, and transported to other types of institutions in other parts of the world. Frankly, this is a daunting task. At best I can offer some suggestions about how to push some arguments further and why it might be worth doing so. In the first section of this chapter, therefore, I summarize the authors' core claims about scope conditions under which socialization is possible, and suggest where these can be extended, compared, and clarified. The second section looks more closely at one of the core mechanisms that establish the added value of both this project and, more generally, the concept of socialization in understanding international relations (IR): persuasion. It suggests how a focus on persuasion actually may suggest the need for more focus on strategic, or “thin rationalist,” behavior. The third section looks at how the treatment of identity in this volume might be extended theoretically. The final section looks at issues involved in extending the claims of this collection to other parts of the world.
Core Analytical Claims
This is a diverse set of essays. At first glance, there appear to be some fairly large differences in whether the empirical evidence does or does not show socialization inside international institutions.
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- International Institutions and Socialization in Europe , pp. 211 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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