1st Edition
Constructivism and International Relations Alexander Wendt and his critics
Preface
1 The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism: A Review Essay
Dale C. Copeland
2 Constructing a New Orthodoxy?
Wendt’s ‘Social Theory of International Politics’ and the Constructivist Challenge
Friedrich Kratochwil
3 Grand Theory in the Age of its Impossibility:
Contemplations on Alexander Wendt
Andreas Behnke
4 Wendt, IR and Philosophy: a critique
Hidemi Suganami
5 Wendt’s constructivism: a relentless quest for synthesis
Stefano Guzzini & Anna Leander
6 Constructivism and Identity: A Dangerous Liaison
Maja Zehfuss
7 Endogenizing Corporate Identities:
The Next Step in Constructivist IR Theory
Lars-Erik Cederman & Christopher Daase
8 Reflexivity and structural change
Petr Drulák
9 No place for politics?
Truth, progress and the neglected role of diplomacy in Wendt’s theory of history
Katalin Sárváry
10 Social Theory as Cartesian science: an auto-critique from a quantum perspective
Alexander Wendt
Biography
Stefano Guzzini received his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence. He is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Anna Leander is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
