Discipline of International Relations

  • First discipline is established

    1919, University of Wales - International Relations department founded
    Immanuel Kant
    Plans for perpetual peace
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    The First Great Debate

    Liberalism - balance of power
    Realism - Morgenthau
  • The Second Discipline

    Hans Morgenthau - "Politics among Nations"
    E.H. Carr - "The Twenty Years of Crisis"
    Power and state interest play a role
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    The Second Great Debate

    Epistemological
    Behaviourlism - natural science methods
    Traditionalism - more historical and easily interpretated as the years go on
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    The Third Great Debate

    Neo-Neo debate
    International Relations was developing and growing quickly
    Neo realism - Kenneth Waltz
    Neo Liberalism - Robert Keohane " After Hegemony Cooperation and discord in the World Political economy" - international independence
    Neo Marxism - Immanuel Wallerstein and Robert Cox
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    The Fourth Great Debate

    post-positivist debate
    how international relations should be studied
    Rationalism - positivist approaches
    Constructivism - Alexander Wendt