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1500
States were instituted for the first time in West-Europe
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"Plans for Perpetual Peace" by Abbé Saint Pierre & Immanuel Kant
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The adjective "international" was coined by Jeremy Bentham
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Carnegie Endownment for International Peace was established
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Start of the Great War
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The Brookings Institute was established
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End of the Great War
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The discipline of International Relations is established
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Institutionalisation of academic areas of the study
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First university to study International Relations: University of Wales
David Davies established the Woodrow Wilson Chair of International Politics -
International Governmental Organisations (IGO) became active in world politics
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Establishment of the League of Nations at Geneva
New legislative principle of procedural justice emerged at this time. -
Establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague
New legislative principle of procedural justice emerged at this time -
London School of Economics established an International Relations Department
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The Great Depression
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University of Oxford established the Montague Burton Chair of International Relations
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The First Great Debate started
Critique on Liberalism from the Realism.
Edward Hallett Carr said that the liberalists were "Utopians" right before the Second World War.
The critique was continued by Morgenthau in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Great Debate gave identity to the discipline of International Relations the years after the Second World War. -
Start of World War 2
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E. H. Carr's book: The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, was published
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End of World War 2
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The Second Establishment of the discipline of International Relations
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Hans Morgenthau's book: Politics Among Nations was published
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The Second Great Debate started
A debate in the 1950s and 1960s
between ‘behaviourism’ and ‘traditionalism', the debate was epistemological.
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Rise of a new subfield of strategic studies
War and conflict and its nuclear age led to the expanding of the boundaries of the discipline in the 1950s and 1960s -
The International Institute for Strategic Studies was established
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Rapid development of the study of International Relations
New academic departments appeared in the United States, Britain and in several other places between the 1960s and the 1970s. -
Non-governmental organizations became active in the world politics
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The Third Great Debate started
Also called the inter-paradigm debate in international relations theory. It was an academic debate between neo-realism, neo-liberalism, and neo-marxim approaches to international relations theory.
Waltz’s neo-realist theory is one of the most prominent approach still today and therefore the main representative for neo-realism.
Main representatives for neo-marxism are Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein.
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Rise of the study of international interdependence in the 1970s
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Robert O. Keohane's book was published: After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
Main representative of the Neo-liberalism.
Argued that the unification of the economic and technological changes required a new form of international political cooperation. -
Individuals became the subject of international law
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The Fourth Great Debate started
Epistemological debate about how should we study International Relations. Constructivism VS rational or positivist approaches.
Also called the post-positivist-debate.
The publication of the book of Alexander Wendt: "Social Theory of International Politics" initiated the debate in 1999