Constructivism&FPA

1. Subject: Foreign Policy Analysis
Lecturer: Ibrahim Koncak
Student: Aidana Sheralieva I.R.-3 A

2. • Constructivism
• Contents:
• Introduction
• What is Constructivism?
• Constructivism in foreign policy

3. • The Rise of Constructivism: End of
Cold War l.
• Failure of dominant IR theories to
explain the end of Cold War (Cold
War did not end through conflict)

4. • Constructivism
• An approach rather than a theory.
• One of the central feature of constructivism holds that
people act towards objects(including other people)on the
basis of the meanings that the object (or person)has for
them.
• Constructivists see the structure as material and
ideational.
• Constructivists hold that all institutions, including the
state, are socially constructed, in the sense that they
reflect.

5. • Nicholas Onuf
• “World of our making”
Alexander Wendt
“Anarchy is what states
make of it"

6. • The four keys of Constructivism:
• 1)A belief in the social construction of reality
and the importance of social facts
• 2)A focus on ideational as rule as material
structures and the importance of norms of
rule
• 3) A focus of the role identity in shaping
political actions and the importance of logic of
actions
• 4)A belief in the mutual constitutiveness
agents and a focus of practice and action

9. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkEJTiodg-Q