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IRL 1089 Brief Revision

This document provides an overview and definitions of key concepts in international relations theory. It summarizes the main theories of realism, liberalism, constructivism, and the English School approach. For realism, it outlines classical realists like Thucydides and Morgenthau, neorealism including Waltz and Mearsheimer, and criticisms of realism. For liberalism it discusses classical liberal thinkers like Locke and Kant, modern liberalism, and criticisms. It also briefly defines important terms in international relations like sovereignty, non-state actors, and levels of analysis.

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IRL 1089 Brief Revision

This document provides an overview and definitions of key concepts in international relations theory. It summarizes the main theories of realism, liberalism, constructivism, and the English School approach. For realism, it outlines classical realists like Thucydides and Morgenthau, neorealism including Waltz and Mearsheimer, and criticisms of realism. For liberalism it discusses classical liberal thinkers like Locke and Kant, modern liberalism, and criticisms. It also briefly defines important terms in international relations like sovereignty, non-state actors, and levels of analysis.

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14/01/2014

Important Concepts

Brief Revision

Overview of Realism
Classical Realism:
1. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War;
2. Machiavelli The Prince;
3. Thomas Hobbes The Leviathan;
4. E. H. Carr The Twenty Years Crisis: 1919 - 1939;
5. Morgenthau Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for
Power & Peace (6 core principles of realism);
Neorealism:
1. Balance of Power;
2. Kenneth Waltz Theory of International Politics;
3. Defensive and Offensive Structural Realism;
4. Stephen Walt Alliance Formation and the Balance of World
Power;

Overview of Liberalism
Classical Liberalism:
1. John Locke Two Treaties of Government;
2. Jeremy Bentham The Principles of International Law;
3. Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace (Republican
Government);
Modern Liberalism:
1. Karl Deutsch & Sociological Liberalism;
2. Commercial Liberalism;
3. Michael Doyle & The Democratic Peace Thesis Ways of War
and Peace;
4. Robert Keohane & Neoliberal Institutionalism After
Hegemony;
Criticism of Liberalism

Definitions:
International Relations
Foreign Policy
3 Levels of Analysis
Nation, State and Nationstate
Sovereignty
Globalisation
Non-state actors (IGOs &
NGOs)

Multi-national
Corporations (or TNCs)
National & Human
Security
Social Contract
General Will
Four Grand Debates
Hegemony
Mercantilism
Norms

Overview of Realism
5. Security Dilemma;
6. John Mearsheimer The Tragedy of Great Power
Politics & The False Promise of International
Institutions;
7. Robert Gilpin War and Change in World Politics;
8. Rise and Fall Realism;
9. Thomas Schelling & Strategic Realism;
Neoclassical Realism;
1. Schwellers Balance of Interest Theory;
Criticism of Realism

Social Constructivism
Main assumptions of Social Constructivism;
Norms and Lifecycles (Finnemore & Sikkink)
Middle Ground Approach:
1. Alexander Wendt Anarchy is What State make of it: The
Social Construction of Power Politics (paper) & Social
Theory of International Politics (book);
2. Nicholas Onuf World of Our Making;
Self-Reflexive:
1. Friedrich Kratochwil Rules, Norms and Decisions;
Pragmatic & Discursive Approach:
1. Christian Reus-Smit Moral Purpose of the State
Copenhagen School

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International Society English School

Main Assumptions of the International Society


Martin Wight
Hedley Bull The Anarchical Society

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