![]() Thus, unlike realists and liberals, constructivists allow for attention regarding the “making” of the conditions (Ruggie, 1998: 877) actors do not respond to “given” conditions, they create them. ![]() Furthermore, their positions can evolve and shift over time. The actors play a major role in how they interpret the system. Thus, there is no reason that anarchy brings about war, or peace. ![]() Thus, to constructivists, the anarchical system is whatever the actors want it to be. He goes on to say that “ Anarchy is what states make of it” (394). There is no “logic” of anarchy apart from the practices that create and instantiate one structure of identities and interests rather than another structure has no existence or causal powers apart from process.” Self-help and power politics are institutions, not essential features of anarchy (394). Specifically, constructivists disagree with the realist position that anarchy inherently leads to competition and war.As one of the foremost scholars on constructivism, Alexander Wendt (1992), in his seminal article Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics, says, “self-help and power politics do not follow either logically or causally from anarchy and that if today we find ourselves in a self-help world, this is due to process, not structure. Constructivists also focus on the idea of anarchy, but they depart from prior positions on the anarchical system.
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