01787cam a2200397 a 4500 2578678 US-DLC 20251105095811.0 960314s1996 nyua b 001 0 eng 96013991 0801432448 cloth : alk. paper 0801483239 pbk. : alk. paper (ebook) 9780801432446 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801483233 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2578678 au DLC au eng Alfaisal Main Library JX1395 .F485 1996 Finnemore, Martha. National interests in international society / Martha Finnemore. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996. 1996. 154 xi, 154 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Cornell studies in political economy 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 International relations. Public interest. International society. Print books. local 4 lcc BOOKS 607802 607802 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2025-11-05 0 JX1395 .F485 1996 AU00000000020673 2025-11-05 09:59:30 235.00 2025-11-05 BOOKS