By: Eva Kroh
Emerging from the fall of the USSR in the 1990s, the social theory of constructivism explores how states interact with each other in relation to each actor's own interest. At its core, constructivists examine the social interactions with other actors and how this forms an identity of the actor or state. Contrary to other dominant international theories, like realism, which heavily rely on the principle of dominance, constructivists fundamentally believe in the principle of identity to explain each actor's behavior.
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