Constructivism and the Anarchy Problematique in ‘Western’ International Relations Theory

The Mainstream tradition in International Relations theory is typically Western in nature although, in contemporary times, one may notice the resurgence of several strands of Non-Western IR theory from different parts of the Asian continent, that purports to challenge the Euro-centricism in mainstream IR Theory generally and in particularly challenge the notion of ‘inter-state anarchy' on which the Positivist-Mainstream tradition is based. But that sort of a challenge had initially emanated from the very core of the Western tradition itself in the 1980s, as the Cold War was nearing its closing stages.