 Insofar as hermeneutics is a basis of both critical theory and constitutive theory (both of which have made important inroads into the postpositivist branch of international relations theory and political science), it has been applied to international relations.Steve Smith refers to hermeneutics as the principal way of grounding a foundationalist yet postpositivist theory of international relations.Radical postmodernism is an example of a postpositivist yet anti-foundationalist paradigm of international relations.