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Social Construction of International Politics pdf/epub/kindle/txt ebooks By:Ted Hopf Published on 2002 by Cornell University Press Download In this deeply researched book Ted Hopf challenges contemporary theorizing about international relations. He advances what he believes is a commonsensical notion: a state's domestic identity has an enormous effect on its international policies. Hopf argues that foreign policy elites are inextricably bound to their own societies; in order to understand other states, they must first understand themselves. To comprehend Russian and Soviet foreign policy, |it is just as important to read what is being consumed on the Moscow subway as it is to conduct research in the Foreign Ministry archives,| the author says.Hopf recreates the major currents in Russian/Soviet identity, reconstructing the |identity topographies| of two profoundly important years, 1955 and 1999. To provide insights about how Russians made sense of themselves in the post-Stalinist an
