The constructivist approach is the most important new school in the field of post-cold war international relations. Constructivists assume that interstate and inter-organizational relations are always at some level inter-subjective, embedded in social, cultural, and linguistic contexts.

Introduction, K.M. Fierke, Knud Erik Jørgensen; Part I Reconsidering Constructivism; Chapter 1 Constructivism as an Approach to Interdisciplinary Study, Friedrich V. Kratochwil; Chapter 2 Four Levels and a Discipline, Knud Erik Jørgensen; Chapter 3 Constructivisms in International Relations: Wendt, Onuf, and Kratochwil, Maja Zehfuss; Chapter 4 Feminism: Constructivism's Other Pedigree, Birgit Locher, Elisabeth Prügl; Chapter 5 What Systems Theory Can Tell Us About Constructivism, Mathias Albert; Part II Practicing Constructivism; Chapter 6 Critical Methodology and Constructivism, K.M. Fierke; Chapter 7 Discourse Study: Bringing Rigor to Critical Theory, Jennifer Milliken; Chapter 8 International Relations as Communicative Action, Harald Müller; Chapter 9 Communicative Action and the World of Diplomacy, Lars G. Lose; Chapter 10 Constructing Globalization, Ben Rosamond; Part III Epilogue; Chapter 11 Can We Speak a Common Constructivist Language?, Audie Klotz; Chapter 12 The Politics of Constructivism, Nicholas G. Onuf;