Alexander Wendt

Now I am reading an article in my textbook. The article ‘Anarchy is what states make of it’ was written by Profesor Alexander Wendt in the Ohio State University. He published it in International Organization in 1992. He is now recognized as a profound and influential scholar in International Relations. It is because he established Constructivism, one of International Relations Theory. You can see the influential scholar in International Relations in the list below. The list is taken from ‘Teaching and Research Project’ College of William and Mary, Williamsburg. August 2005.

With regard to his article, he proposed the inquiry about anarchy in international politics in it.

(22) Please list the four scholars who have had the greatest impact on the field of international relations over the past 20 years. N=752

Rank	Names	Responses	Percent
1	Robert Keohane	422	56
2	Kenneth Waltz	311	41
3	Alexander Wendt	248	33
4	Samuel Huntington	155	21
5	John Mearsheimer	138	18
6	Joseph Nye	125	17
7	Robert Jervis	113	15
8	Bruce Bueno de Mesquita	109	14
9	Bruce Russett	83	11
10	Robert Gilpin	78	10
11	Peter Katzenstein	69	9
12	Stephen Krasner	68	9
13	James Rosenau	60	8
14	John Ruggie	49	7
15	Michael Doyle	42	6
16	James Fearon	41	5
17	Immanuel Wallerstein	31	4
18	Robert Cox	28	4
19	Hans Morgenthau	27	4
20	Francis Fukuyama	26	3
21	J. David Singer	21	3
22	Stephen Walt	19	3
23	Jack Snyder	17	2
23	Robert Axelrod	17	2
23	Stanley Hoffmann	17	2