英文摘要 |
Constructivism takes sovereignty as a discourse of international norm to explain sovereignty as a social construction of international practices. Constructivism- argued international norms come from ideas and identities, and have constitutive and regulatory effects on state's behaviors. International norms give the legitimacy to the states' objectives, and define the formations of states' identities and interests. International norms are collective expectations of international society on state's proper behaviors; their premises are based on maintaining the international security and order of existing status which to be content with the majority of states' interests and expectations. With reciprocities and mutual commitments able to reasonably expect each other's behaviors and the operational procedures, the international norms and mechanisms are more institutionalized, and more legalized implications are binds to restrain international agencies' (states are the majority) behaviors. Basically, the constructivism approach to sovereignty is based on the perspectives that sovereignty comes from the shared understanding which exist intersubjectively in international practices; states socialize and internalize it as an international norm. States' compliance to international norms, and the interactions among states form norms, identities, and interests; these social constructions produce the international norms to restrain and to constitute states' behaviors. States internalize the sovereignty as an international norm by way of international socialization and learning. This article tries to illustrate how constructivism interprets the challenges of humanitarian intervention to the state sovereignty, in order to emphasize constructivism's argument in which the sovereignty is a discourse of international practice and a social construction. This article proceeds in four sections: the first section starts from the traditional discourse of state sovereignty theories to show the historical development of Western state sovereignty theories; the second section explores the discourse of constructivism on state sovereignty to emphasis its perspectives which sovereignty is a discourse of international practice and a social construction; the third section illustrates the challenges of humanitarian intervention to express the influence on state sovereignty theory; the fourth section illustrates how the constructivism interprets the challenges, and gives my own comments on the interpretations. |