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The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory
Abstract
A challenger to the continuing dominance of neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism in the study of international relations in the United States, constructivism is regarded with a great deal of skepticism by mainstream scholars.1 While the reasons for this reception are many, three central ones are the mainstream's miscasting of constructivism as necessarily postmodern and antipositivist; constructivism's own ambivalence about whether it can buy into mainstream social science methods without sacrificing its theoretical distinctiveness; and, related to this ambivalence, constructivism's failure to advance an alternative research program. In this article, I clarify constructivism's claims, outline the differences between conventional and critical constructivism, and suggest a research agenda that both provides alternative understandings of mainstream interna-
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hopf, T.
- Venue
- International Security
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 1998-07
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 171-200
- ISSN
- 0162-2889 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-4804
- OpenAlex
- W2106260203
- Cited by
- 1,459
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 163.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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