ConstructivismWiener, Antje (Avtor) premoščanjekonstruktivizemDurkheimGiddensnormedružbena dejstvaThe article discusses the input of constructivist research on international relations theory (IR). To that end, it reconstructs the central arguments of the so-called constructivist turn in IR, highlights the central constructivistinterest in theorising the impact of the social on world politics, assesses the theoretical output of constructivist positions, and scrutinises bridge-building efforts in IR. The constructivist's value-added is characterised as the focus on social ontologies, illustrated with reference to the role of norms in IR. The article demonstrates that, based on a principally different conceptualisation of norms as constitutive and regulative on one hand, and mutually constituted by the interrelation with social practices on the other, constructivists have settled into two distinct research strands. The significant difference between them lies in their respective transdisciplinary efforts in addressing the social. While the compliance approach follows a neo-Durkheimian structural understanding of social facts, the societal approach works with a Giddensian reflexive approachto the social construction of reality.20032022-03-30 13:45:16Članek v reviji135845UDK: 327ISSN pri članku: 1408-6980COBISS_ID: 22605917sl