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Dunning, Thad. "Creating Social Facts: Alternative Approaches to Autonomous Action and Political Change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59937_index.html>

Dunning, T. , 2004-09-02 "Creating Social Facts: Alternative Approaches to Autonomous Action and Political Change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59937_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Theories that emphasize the role of norms, ideas or identities in international politics have sometimes been criticized (like other theories of international relations) for being better at explaining stability than elucidating change. However, recent analyses have offered new approaches that leverage the respective strengths of "constructivism" and "rationalism" to understand processes of political transformation. A number of these synthetic approaches prompt researchers to borrow from constructivism to understand issues that may be logically and temporally prior to the point at which a rationalist analysis cuts in - in particular, the formation of actor preferences - and then to use "rationalist" tools to understand how these preferences interact with strategic or structural environments. Although these approaches have proved useful in some substantive areas, I argue here that another kind of approach may be at least a productive: analysts could strive to understand the role of autonomous and even strategic action in producing the "social facts" that provide the ontological foundation for much constructivist work. To illustrate the argument, I review recent approaches to systemic change offered by Ruggie, Finnemore and Sikkink, and others and comment on the promises and potential pitfalls of these approaches.

Domestic Political Structure and Social Norms: Explaining State Resistance and Cooperation towards the Global Human Rights Regime: The Case of United States and China

Culture in International Relations Theory: Comparative Analysis of Social Theory of International Politics and Clash of Civilizations Theory