THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: A CONSTRUCTIVIST ANALYSIS

dc.creator	Clarence Payne
dc.creator	Hollie Hepburn
dc.creator	Jo-Ansie Van Wyk
dc.creator	Chris Sham
dc.creator	Linda Kinghorn
dc.date	2011-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:45Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:45Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/35-1-28
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/1a156d9184cb490691759ae5459fab46
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9271
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/1a156d9184cb490691759ae5459fab46
dc.description	Constructivism challenges the prevailing approaches to international relations and security. It attempts to explain, inter alia, how actors acquire their identities, and how these identities shape actors’ material and non-material interests. These constructed identities and interests further define mutually constructed rules, norms and institutions, which enable states and other actors to act accordingly. For constructivists, actors approach social facts in terms of the meaning, significance, value and beliefs these actors ascribe to such facts. Once an actor has constructed the social purpose (i.e. its identity and/or interests) of a particular social fact, the actor ascribes new meaning to this fact. The next step for the actor and others would then be to construct social practices based on mutually constructed norms, rules and institutions to engage with this social fact. States, therefore, could have different identities and varying interests at different times (Barnett, 2005:251-270).
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/28
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 35, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: A CONSTRUCTIVIST ANALYSIS
dc.type	Article