Security and International Socialization

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Security and International Socialization

• International socialization is a tool for states
  and international organisations for building and
  maintaining security
• Conditionality (the carrot and the stick)
• Norms and values shapes the international system
• Unconventional security threats has broaden the
  repertoire of ways to create and maintain
  stability and peaceful relations

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Security and International Socialization

• How we view security, also determines how we
  build security
• Depending on what kind of perception a state
  holds, it also tends to act in accordance with
  that conception
• Conceptions of security are hard to change and
  often entrenched in deep-seated identity and long
  established norms
• History and past experiences function as major
  structural constraints to change

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Security and International Socialization

• International socialization is a process that is
  directed toward a states internalization of the
  constitutive beliefs and practices
  institutionalized in its international
  environment
• Socialization is a process, nor an outcome
• Internalization means the adoption of social
  beliefs and practices into the actors own
  repertoire of behaviour
• Social actors are corporate actors, not
  individuals

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Security and International Socialization

• Socialization moulds political behaviour in
  particular directions by encouraging specific
  beliefs and attitudes and provide states and
  their leaders guidelines about how they are
  suppose to behave in the international system
• diffusion, political learning of norms are
  closely related to socialization
• State socialization is often dismissed as a
  misleading anthropomorphism

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Security and International Socialization

• The key to socialization is normative
  internalization
• Attitude change Actions which previously
  appeared justifiedfrom slavery to torture to
  tolerating pollutioncome to be seen as improper,
  illegitimate, and morally distasteful
• Persuasion Political internalization takes the
  form of pressure where domestic actors
  successfully lobby for norm compliance
• Institutionalization The defining feature of
  state socialization. an institution is a practice
  which one expects to continue into the future and
  whose reproduction over time does not require
  active intervention