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Ackerman, John, Barak Carlson and Young Han, Constructivism and Security . Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) Distance Learning Program. Maxwell AFB, AL: ACSC, 2010. Page1 Constructivism and Security By Dr. John T. Ackerman, Lt Col Barak J. Carlson (PhD), and Major Young I. Han Constructivism has become a major theoretical challenger to the dominant international relations paradigms, realism and liberalism (Ba and Hoffmann 2003). The interplay between change in the international system and the behavior of the actors in the system can often be examined and explained using a constructivist lens. In particular, constructivist concepts such as, the power of ideas, the interplay between actors and their social context, the notion that actors words deeds, and interactions shape the kind of world in which they exist, and the world shapes who actors are and what they want (Ba and Hoffmann 2003, 15) have been used to analyze many of the previously unexplainable interactions within international relations.

Ackerman, John, Barak Carlson and Young Han, “Constructivism and Security.” Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) Distance Learning Program.

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