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In international relation theories, next to Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism, there is the Constructivism which asks exactly that: do we understand the other, do we know how he thinks and how he views the world. Do we judge their actions based on our understanding of the world or theirs? Do we get what they want and what they are telling us? How they view us? And for this we also have to understand how we do the same things.