Constructivism IR

Constructivism IR

1. Social paradigm

2. Claims that significant aspects of international relations are historically and socially constructed are not inevitable consequences of human nature

3. Seeks to demonstrate how core aspects of IR are socially constructed (given their form by ongoing processes of social practice and interaction)

4. Challenging the neorealist structural point of view by saying that structures are not given, but constructed

5. Agrees about the existence of anarchy and the importance of states in the global system

6. Material vs. inmaterial reality

7. Ideational factors constitute actors and their actions

8. Anarchy in terms of culture rather than materialistic terms

9. Buzan

10. Different cultures of anarchy. Anarchy is what you make of it

11. The meanings of ideas, objects, and actors are all given by social interaction