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Jeremy Bentham was born
He was an English philosopher, jurist and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. -
"International"
The adjective international was coined by the English political philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. -
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Edward Hallett Carr
Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was an English Marxist historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist. -
Hans Morgenthau was born
Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was one of the major twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics. Morgenthau's works belong to the tradition of realism in international relations theory. -
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was established as a foreign-policy think tank. -
The Brookings Institute
The Brookings Institute conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development. -
International relations as a discipline
The establishment of international relations as a formal academic discipline emerged with the founding of the first IR professorship: the Woodrow Wilson Chair at Aberystwyth, University of Wales (now Aberystwyth University), held by Alfred Eckhard Zimmern and endowed by David Davies. -
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First Great Debate
The "First Great Debate" also known as the "Realist-Idealist Great Debate" was a dispute between idealists and realists which took place in the early 1920s and 1950s -
The Royal Institute of International Affairs
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, is a not-for-profit and non-governmental organisation based in London whose mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs. -
The League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Founded in Geneva. -
The Permanent Court of International Justice
The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, existed from 1922 to 1946. It was an international court attached to the League of Nations. It was located in The Hague. -
LSE: International Relations department
The London School of Economics establishes an International Relations department -
Kenneth Neal Waltz was born
Kenneth Neal Waltz was an American political scientist who was one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations. He died in May 12, 2013. -
Robert Warburton Cox CM was born
Robert Warburton Cox CM was a Canadian scholar of political science and a former United Nations officer. One of the main representatives of Marxism. -
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was born
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein is an American sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst, arguably best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach. One of the main representatives of Neo-Mrxism. -
The Twenty Years' Crisis book
The text is considered a classic in international relations theory, and is often dubbed one of the first modern realist texts, following in the fashion of Thucydides, Machiavelli and Hobbes. One of the 2 foundational of international relations as a theoretical discipline. -
Robert Owen Keohane was born
is an American academic, who, following the publication of his influential book After Hegemony (1984), became widely associated with the theory of neoliberal institutionalism, as well as transnational relations and world politics in international relations in the 1970s. -
The 2nd establishment of the discipline
The discipline was re-established after WWII. -
Politics Among Nations book
One of the two foundational texts of international relations as a theoretical discipline. Written by Hans Morgenthau. -
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The ‘second great debate’
The ‘second great debate’ is said to have been a epistemological quarrel in the 1950s and 1960s between ‘behaviourism’ and ‘traditionalism’. -
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Neo-realism
Waltz’s neo-realist theory is one of the most prominent approach still today. Waltz maintained thatbtheory must abstract from the numerous diverse forces at work in international politics while it should recognize that in reality ‘everything is connected with everything else’. Period: 1950's - 1960's. -
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The ‘third great debate’
In the third “Great Debate” the mainstream approaches of neorealism and neoliberalism are engaged in dialogue and at the same time defend themselves against a variety of „critical” theories, Neo-Marxism appears. Period: 1960's - 1970's -
Neo-liberalism
Liberal theories of interdependence and the later ‘neo-liberal institutionalist’ analysis of international regimes argued that the economic and technological unification of the human race required new forms of international political cooperation.
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Neo-marxism
For the neo-Marxist international interdependence meant something quite different. The reality for them was a system of global dominance and dependence which divided the world between ‘North and ‘South. Main representatives are Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein. Period: 1970's - 1980's. -
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy was published in 1984 by Robert O. Keohane. -
The fourth “Great Debate”
The fourth debate is an epistemological debate. It is about how should we study IRs. Which methods are considered as the most adequate tools of analysis. The participants are constructivism and the rational or positivist approaches (liberalism, realism and marxism). -
Social Theory of International Politics book
Alexander Wendt published his book under the title “Social Theory of International Politics” in 1999 and initiated the fourth debate.
