Constructivist Approach Analysis on the Boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing have drawn a lot of attention since number important nations put diplomatic boycott on the event. United States, Britain, and Canada were among that enacted embargo. Using constructivism theory approach, this research will attempt to give an analytical study occurrence boycott. Instead adopting traditional approaches like liberalism realism, author believes approach offers fresh viewpoint phenomenon. From constructivist perspective, nation imposed was regarded as having constructive elements encourage such behavior. Every has its own factors shift way make decisions. main argument paper is there are three construct behavior these countries. first construction friend vs foe between boycotting countries China host country. Boycott share ideological similarities point view enemy them because their differences. second existence China's country perpetrates human rights violations. This prompted protest with third bilateral problems Some countries, Canada, China, which then occurs.