Unit-level constructivism starts with the critique of systemic approach and contends that systemic constructivism’s focus on the role of the international environment and norms in constructing state identities and interest, leaves out the important role that domestic factors play in the formation of state identity and interests. “Instead of focusing on the external, international domain, unit-level constructivists concentrate on the relationship between domestic social and legal norms and the identities and interests of states, the very factors bracketed by Wendt”