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One of the biggest critiques for the constructivism in international relations discipline is the accusations of abstractiveness and having little substantive to say when talking about world politics. The article asserts that constructivism is not the typical theory of international relations or foreign policy analysis. Constructivism in the discipline is what every constructivist researcher makes of it, using a few fundamental statements about the analysis of social reality. In order to show how the constructivist international relations researchers apply the fundamental principles of the constructivist analysis of social reality to form their models of analysis, firstly, the article explains the metatheoretical assumptions of constructivism and the main problems that emerge trying to apply them in empirical research. Secondly, analysing three fundamental statements of metatheoretical constructivism (on intersubjective construction of meanings, relationship of ideas and materiality, and mutual constitutive relation of structure and agency) it is demonstrated how they are transformed and applied in more particular theoretical and empirical works of international politics. In the end several recommendation are provided on the main principles of constructivist research in international relations. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Christoph Meißner, Jörg Morré | Introduction -- The Context of the Withdrawals from East Central Europe -- Tim Geiger | Disarmament and the End of the Cold War -- Hans-Henning Schröder, Christoph Meißner | 'New Thinking' and its Effects on Soviet Foreign and Security Policy -- Markus Mirschel, Michael Galbas | War Returnees as Transformation Accelerators -- Christoph Meißner | The Search for a New Security Structure in Eastern Europe Through the Example of the Dissolution of the Soviet Army -- The Withdrawal of Soviet/Russian Forces from Germany -- Matthias Uhl | The Armed Forces in Germany in the Changed Soviet Defence Strategy Under Gorbachev -- Alexei Sindeyev | The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Germany -- Christoph Meißner | The Withdrawal of the Western Group of Forces from Germany -- Christoph Lorke | Shaping and Negotiating the Withdrawal -- Sascha Gunold | 'Withdrawal Under Observation' -- Markus Hennen | Conversion in Germany Through the Example of the Federal State of Brandenburg -- The Withdrawal of Soviet/Russian Forces from East Central Europe -- Dávid Kiss | The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Hungary and Hungarian Security Relations -- Barnabás Vajda | The Soviet Army Stationing and its Legacy in Czechoslovakia and at Fortress Komárno -- Agnieszka Kastory | International Aspects of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Poland and Germany -- The Withdrawal of Russian Forces from States of the Former Soviet Union -- Sophie Momzikoff | International Aspects of the Russian Troops' Withdrawal from the Baltics -- Dovilė Jakniūnaitė, Valentinas Beržiūnas | Russia and the Baltic States after Regaining Independence -- David Darchiashvili, Michael Machavariani | The Empire Fights Back.