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'Anarchy is what states make of it' (A Wendt) Do you agree? Anarchy is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as 'absence of government; the state of lawlessness due to the absence or inefficiency of the supreme power; political disorder'. When Wendt made his point, he was not in fact referring to anarchy as a type of political system or lack of, more about the general idea that in the arena of international politics a condition of anarchy exists, and it is this point that he is debating. Rather than meaning there is complete lawlessness, international politics takes place in an arena where there is no overarching central authority above the collection of various sovereign states. Wendt's point is that of a Constructivist stance, as opposed to the Realist view of international politics, and he is arguing that it is ideas and beliefs that make the world and influence how states...

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