This essay shall argue that rules and norms significantly shape, influence and define the behavio... more This essay shall argue that rules and norms significantly shape, influence and define the behaviour of states in the international system in a plethora of ways which are spelt and best explained through international law, multilateralism (The structure of the international system) and constructivism. In pursuit of this argument, the essay shall set out to analyse how the various rules that bind states which are in the form of international treaties, conventions as administered through international organizations and institutions and ultimately as in the view of constructivism, have power towards defining the course of action taken by states, the code of conduct of states in the international system, the pursuit of national interests as part of states foreign policy towards each other, the process of international relations in the context of diplomacy and ultimately how they define state behaviour. Schuett and Stirk (2015) assert that, in international relations the state is assumed to be a person by virtue of its ability to act intentionally, if not always rationally, as they are same way regarded as persons by virtue of being bearers of rights and obligations. It is with no doubt that, as realist theory thinkers assert that the behaviour of states within the international system is essentially focused on the pursuit of state interests, it is also governed through a set of laws and principles established to watch over and set rules of conduct which are meant to be adhered to. State interests are what Schuett and Stirk (2015) have alluded to as state obligations which are embedded equally in the framework of the state as bearer of rights thereby bringing in the law factor. The state is a bearer of rights as the above assertion because it is obliged to adhere towards both domestic and international law thus international rules and best practices (Norms). State behaviour shall be understood and discussed within the context of the state's pursuit of national interests as postulated through realist theories, the state's preoccupation with wealth accumulation and power as argued through neo liberalism, the agent structure relationship, the concept of sovereignty, security and Alexander Wendt's approach on Anarchy as well as the most important to this analysis, the state's position
This essay shall argue that rules and norms significantly shape, influence and define the behavio... more This essay shall argue that rules and norms significantly shape, influence and define the behaviour of states in the international system in a plethora of ways which are spelt and best explained through international law, multilateralism (The structure of the international system) and constructivism. In pursuit of this argument, the essay shall set out to analyse how the various rules that bind states which are in the form of international treaties, conventions as administered through international organizations and institutions and ultimately as in the view of constructivism, have power towards defining the course of action taken by states, the code of conduct of states in the international system, the pursuit of national interests as part of states foreign policy towards each other, the process of international relations in the context of diplomacy and ultimately how they define state behaviour. Schuett and Stirk (2015) assert that, in international relations the state is assumed to be a person by virtue of its ability to act intentionally, if not always rationally, as they are same way regarded as persons by virtue of being bearers of rights and obligations. It is with no doubt that, as realist theory thinkers assert that the behaviour of states within the international system is essentially focused on the pursuit of state interests, it is also governed through a set of laws and principles established to watch over and set rules of conduct which are meant to be adhered to. State interests are what Schuett and Stirk (2015) have alluded to as state obligations which are embedded equally in the framework of the state as bearer of rights thereby bringing in the law factor. The state is a bearer of rights as the above assertion because it is obliged to adhere towards both domestic and international law thus international rules and best practices (Norms). State behaviour shall be understood and discussed within the context of the state's pursuit of national interests as postulated through realist theories, the state's preoccupation with wealth accumulation and power as argued through neo liberalism, the agent structure relationship, the concept of sovereignty, security and Alexander Wendt's approach on Anarchy as well as the most important to this analysis, the state's position
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