Wendt's Main Arguments

Question 1

The Neo-neo debate is considered as central to international relations theory

Answer 1

True

Question 2

BOTH NR &NL are reflectivist theories

Answer 2

False; rationalist

Question 3

There exist social theories that take interests and identities as given, known as reflectivist or constructivist theories whatever their differences

Answer 3

False; DO NOT TAKE

Question 4

Collective meanings define the structures that organize our actions

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

Actors acquire their interests and identities by participating in such collective meanings

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Identities and interests are in disconnect

Answer 6

False; relational

Question 7

No such thing as an automatic security dilemma for states

Answer 7

True

Question 8

self-help emerges only out of an interaction between states

Answer 8

True

Question 9

If states find themselves in self-help situations then this is because their practices made it that way

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The fact that specific formations of interests and identities may be self perpetuating does not mean that they can be changed.

Answer 10

False; cannot be changed