Constructivists differ from liberalists, however, in that change does not have to come from the abolition of international anarchy; the change can come when a state redefines its interests and other states’ interests and creates its own peaceful structure. A realist would criticize Constructivism in that a state can change its interests, but it cannot change another state’s. That other state could still threaten the security of the first state, and whatever they “constructed” would not help. Wendt states that “possibility is not probability” when determining the risk of war, but a realist would most likely say that just the possibility of war is enough to prevent a state from changing its self-serving
Constructivists differ from liberalists, however, in that change does not have to come from the abolition of international anarchy; the change can come when a state redefines its interests and other states’ interests and creates its own peaceful structure. A realist would criticize Constructivism in that a state can change its interests, but it cannot change another state’s. That other state could still threaten the security of the first state, and whatever they “constructed” would not help. Wendt states that “possibility is not probability” when determining the risk of war, but a realist would most likely say that just the possibility of war is enough to prevent a state from changing its self-serving