Alexander Wendt -- IR

Question 1

Beyond rationalism & reflectivism quote meaning: “**construcivism’s potential contribution to a strong liberalism has been obscured **(…) by recent epistemological debates b/w modernists & postmodernists in which **Science disciplines Dissent **for not defining a conventional research program, & Dessent celebrates its liberation from Science” (1992)

Answer 1

o Science & decent are the critics?
o Wendt believes constructivism can be connected to liberalism (compatible)

Question 2

Building a “Bridge” quote – “identities”-move away from & turn into constructivism

Answer 2

“My objective in this article is to build a bridge b/w these 2 traditions(…) by developing a constructivist argument (…) on behalf of the liberal claim that international institutions can transform state identifies & interest”

Question 3

“The distribution of powr may always affect states’ calculations but how it does so depends on the intersubjective understandings & expectations, on the “distribution of knowledge”, that **constitute ** their conceptions of self & other”

meaning

Answer 3

o What they do with this power is a question of social conceptions