Shift to Constructivism in Western National Interests Theory Research

After criticized the research paradigm of the mainstream school which based on non-government and material, constructivism, based on the principle of the Holism and concepts idea, realized the paradigm shift about theoretical study of in ternational relations. Based on the paradigm shift, study of the national interests has been shifted:constructivism holds that the national interests is not to be built by material factors, but the concept factors; that the content of the national interests should include the survival, independence, economic wealth and collective self-esteem. The national interests theory of constructivism have not only the existing reality, and also a certain the idealism color.