Interaction narratives, constitutive rules, and historical structures: US, India, and Pakistan between 10/12/99 and 9/11/01.

The article presents a process-tracing constructivist theory to reconstruct the interaction of the U.S., India and Pakistan between the Pakistani military coup of October 12 1999 and the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. It also discusses how concurrent autobiographical narrations of interactions by international subjects generate actions and reproduce themselves collectively. It traces the processes of reproduction of structures in international society by specifying the impact of narratives upon actions and actions upon narratives.