Stefano Guzzini received his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence. He is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. Anna Leander is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

• Preface 1. The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism: A Review Essay 2 Constructing a New Orthodoxy? Wendt’s ‘Social Theory of International Politics’ and the Constructivist Challenge 3. Grand Theory in the Age of its Impossibility: Contemplations on Alexander Wendt 4. Wendt, IR and Philosophy: a critique 5. Wendt’s constructivism: a relentless quest for synthesis 6. Constructivism and Identity: A Dangerous Liaison 7. Endogenizing Corporate Identities: The Next Step in Constructivist IR Theory 8. Reflexivity and structural change 9. No place for politics? Truth, Progress and the Neglected Role of Diplomacy in Wendt’s Theory of History 10. Social Theory as Cartesian Science: An Auto-Critique from a Quantum Perspective

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Stefano Guzzini received his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence. He is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. Anna Leander is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

• Preface 1. The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism: A Review Essay 2 Constructing a New Orthodoxy? Wendt’s ‘Social Theory of International Politics’ and the Constructivist Challenge 3. Grand Theory in the Age of its Impossibility: Contemplations on Alexander Wendt 4. Wendt, IR and Philosophy: a critique 5. Wendt’s constructivism: a relentless quest for synthesis 6. Constructivism and Identity: A Dangerous Liaison 7. Endogenizing Corporate Identities: The Next Step in Constructivist IR Theory 8. Reflexivity and structural change 9. No place for politics? Truth, Progress and the Neglected Role of Diplomacy in Wendt’s Theory of History 10. Social Theory as Cartesian Science: An Auto-Critique from a Quantum Perspective

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Stefano Guzzini received his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence. He is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. Anna Leander is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

• Preface 1. The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism: A Review Essay 2 Constructing a New Orthodoxy? Wendt’s ‘Social Theory of International Politics’ and the Constructivist Challenge 3. Grand Theory in the Age of its Impossibility: Contemplations on Alexander Wendt 4. Wendt, IR and Philosophy: a critique 5. Wendt’s constructivism: a relentless quest for synthesis 6. Constructivism and Identity: A Dangerous Liaison 7. Endogenizing Corporate Identities: The Next Step in Constructivist IR Theory 8. Reflexivity and structural change 9. No place for politics? Truth, Progress and the Neglected Role of Diplomacy in Wendt’s Theory of History 10. Social Theory as Cartesian Science: An Auto-Critique from a Quantum Perspective

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