Session 4 (Wednesday 5:00-6:30 pm)

Constructivism

Required reading:
Flockhart, Trine. 2012. "Constructivism and foreign policy." In Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases,
edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne, 78-93. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Houghton, David Patrick. 2007. "Reinvigorating the Study of Foreign Policy Decision-Making:
Toward a Constructivist Approach." Foreign Policy Analysis no. 3 (1):24-45.

Further reading:
Cambell, David. 1999. Writing Security: US Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. Minneapolis,
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Checkel, Jeffrey. 1998. "The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory." World Politics
no. 50 (2):324-348.
Checkel, Jeffrey T. 2008. "Constructivism and foreign policy." In Foreign Policy Theories, Actors, Cases,
edited by Steve Smith, 71-82. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Doty, Roxanne Lynn. 1993. "Foreign Policy as Social Construction." International Studies Quarterly
no. 37 (2):297-320.
Goldstein, J., and R. O Keohane. 1993. Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutional and Political Change.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Jervis, Robert. 1979. Perceptions and Misperceptions in International Politics. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Katzenstein, Peter. 1996. The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics. New
York: Columbia University.
Kowert, P. 2001. "Toward A Constructivist Theory of Foreign Policy." In Foreign Policy in A
Constructed World, edited by V. Kubalkova. London & New York: M. E. Sharpe.
Schonberg, Karl K. 2009. Constructing 21st Century U.S. Foreign Policy: Identity, Ideology, and America’s
World Role in a New Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Smith, Steve. 2001. "Foreign Policy Is What States Make of It." In Foreign Policy in A Constructed
World, edited by V. Kubalkova. London & New York: M. S. Sharpe.
Wendt, Alexander. 1992. "Anarchy is what states make of it." International Organization no. 46
(2):391-425.
Wendt, Alexander. 1995. "Constructing International Politics." International Security no. 20 (1):71-
81.