Constructivism IR

Social paradigm
Claims that significant aspects of international relations are historically and socially constructed are not inevitable consequences of human nature
Seeks to demonstrate how core aspects of IR are socially constructed (given their form by ongoing processes of social practice and interaction)
Challenging the neorealist structural point of view by saying that structures are not given, but constructed
Agrees about the existence of anarchy and the importance of states in the global system
Material vs. inmaterial reality
Ideational factors constitute actors and their actions
Anarchy in terms of culture rather than materialistic terms
Buzan
Different cultures of anarchy. Anarchy is what you make of it
The meanings of ideas, objects, and actors are all given by social interaction

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