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That ‘constructivist turn’ characterized International Relations theory in the 1990s was due to, on the one hand, the resurgence in international politics of such ideational and societal factors as identity, culture, and norms with the end of the Cold War and their incresing importance in the study of international relations, and on the other hand, the opening up space in the discipline in which new approaches can be entertained thanks to profound critics against mainstream approaches. The fact that social constructivist approaches put emphasis on the social makeup of international relations and that they compellingly claimed that they represented or ‘constructed’ a ‘middle ground’ between positivist and post-positivist approaches in the discipline was critical in the way they occupied a central place in International Relations theory. Even if social constructivism advanced critics of rationalist theoretical approaches, it was home to only those who refuted post-modernist and post-structuralist relativism and wished to contribute with their empirical research to the discipline of International Relations, which they regard as a social science

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