Constructivism theory
interaction were raised by Wendt in 1992, in his path-breaking article "Anarchy
is what States make of it: The Social construction of power politics." Does the
absence of centralized political authority force states to play competitive power
politics? Can international conditions overcome this logic and under what
conditions? What in anarchy is given and immutable and what is amenable to
change? The general neorealist and neoliberal answer to these questions is that
"anarchies are necessarily `self-help' systems" in which states have to struggle
for their security and survival due to the absence of a security-providing central
order as well as a lack of collective security guarantees; a condition which gives
rise to the "inherently competitive dynamic of security dilemma and collective
action problem." In answering so, therefore, Wendt contends, neorealist and
neoliberal scholars of international relations ignore "questions of identity- and
interest-formation
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