Social Constructivism and the Social Construction of World Economic Reality

Sungjoon Cho

Social Constructivism and the Social Construction of World Economic Reality

Sungjoon Cho

Chicago-Kent College of Law

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Abstract

In making sense of the world trading system represented by the World Trade Organization (WTO), conventional rationalism aims attention at individual trading nations and their fixed preferences on material benefits, such as expanded access to foreign markets. In contrast with a rationalist optic, this chapter offers a social (constructivist) optic that centres on an emergent normative structure that constitutes WTO members’ identities and guides their actions. The chapter also discusses norm internalization (compliance) as a process in which the WTO reality qua symbolic universe is recognized and maintained in a domestic legal reality. Finally, the chapter addresses various limits of such internalization.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on the Sociology of International Law
State	Published - Nov 30 2018

Keywords

social constructivism
norm internalization
WTO
international law
international trade law

Disciplines

Law
International Law
International Trade Law

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