▪ Abstract Constructivism is an approach to social analysis that deals with the role of human
consciousness in social life. It asserts that human interaction is shaped primarily by …

Although a thriving social science literature in citizenship has emerged in the past two
decades, to date there exists neither a sociology of rights nor a sociology of human rights …

Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops
a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the …

Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping
“ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern …

The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in
international relations theory. Revolving in the past around competing theories of human …

The neorealist-neoliberal debate about the possibilities for collective action in international
relations has been based on a shared commitment to Mancur Olson's rationalist definition of …

The history of international political orders is written in terms of continuity and change in
domestic and international political relations. As a step toward understanding such …

The concept of territoriality has been studied surprisingly little by students of international
politics. Yet, territoriality most distinctively defines modernity in international politics, and …

John J. Mearsheimer's" The False Promise of International Institutions" 1 is welcome
particularly in two respects. First, it is the most systematic attempt to date by a neorealist to …

Social constructivism in international relations has come into its own during the past decade,
not only as a metatheoretical critique of currently dominant neo-utilitarian approaches (neo …