Taking stock: The constructivist research program in international relations and comparative politics

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 391-416

  Finnemore, Martha ^a   Sikkink, Kathryn ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Constructivism; Culture; Ideas; Identity; Norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040376226     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.4.1.391     Document Type: Review

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