Ideas of Alexander Wendt on the contributions of Socio-constructivism to the understanding of anarchy as a concept in International Relations Cover Image

Reflexions d'Alexandre Wendt sur les contributions du socioconstructivisme a la comprehension du concept d'anarchie dans Relations Internationales
Ideas of Alexander Wendt on the contributions of Socio-constructivism to the understanding of anarchy as a concept in International Relations

Author(s): Valentina Gîdea
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Departamentul de Studii Internaţionale al Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai din Cluj Napoca
Keywords: socio-constructivism; anarchy; identity; interest; states.

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the theory of socio-constructivism and its contributions to the understanding of anarchy as a concept in international relations. I took as example Alexander Wendt’s theory, who considers that anarchy, is what states make of it: the Social Construction of Power Politics. In this article I made an incursion in his ideas regarding envisaged subject, and I concluded that identity and interest are defining for the anarchical character of the state by the simple reason that states dispose of themselves.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 61-72
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French