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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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