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Alexander Wendt
Researcher at Ohio State University
Publications - 50
Citations - 17855
Alexander Wendt is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: International relations & Social theory. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 44 publications receiving 16927 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander Wendt include Yale University & University of Chicago.
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Social Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: Wendt as discussed by the authors describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
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Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics
TL;DR: The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in international relations theory as mentioned in this paper, and the debate is more concerned today with the extent to which state action is influenced by "structure" versus "process" and institutions.
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La anarquía es lo que los estados hacen de ella: La construcción social de la política de poder
TL;DR: The principal asunto que se cuestiona en los debates sobre teoria social es el tipo de fundamento que puede ofrecer el conjunto de preguntas and las estrategias de investigacion mas provechosas para poder explicar los cambios revolucionarios que parecen estar ocurriendo in el sistema internacional desde finales del siglo XX.
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The agent-structure problem in international relations theory
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative solution to the agent-structure problem, adapted from "structuration theory" in sociology, can overcome these inadequacies by avoiding both the reduction of system structures to state actors in neorealism and their reification in world-system theory.
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Collective Identity Formation and the International State
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how broadening systemic theory beyond rationalist concerns can help it to explain structural change in world politics and how collective identity among states could emerge endogenously at the systemic level.