National interests in international society / Martha Finnemore.
Series: Cornell studies in political economy1996Description: 154 xi, 154 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801432448
- 0801483239
- 9780801483233
- JX1395 .F485 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological institutionalism to develop a systemic approach to state interests and state behavior by investigating an international structure not of power of meaning and social value. An understanding of what states want, she argues, requires insight into the international social structure of which they are a part

