International Relations Theory

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  • 460 BCE

    Origins of Classical Tradition - Thucydides

    Origins of Classical Tradition - Thucydides
  • 1500

    Concept of power maximization - Niccolo Machiavelli

  • Discussions of nature of secular authority and power - Thomas Hobbes

  • Enlightenment and the emergence of Liberalism

    Kant, Locke, Voltaire

  • Class struggle concept during Industrialization

  • Communist Manifesto

    A political manuscript that provides an analytical approach to class struggle

  • World War I

    boost for Marxism

  • Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr and Ethics in Politics

    The intersection of religion, politics and public policy

  • The Russian Revolution

    change of the government rule, the emergence of Marxism - Leninism

  • Establishment of the Discipline of IR

  • Edward Carr and the "Twenty Year Crisis"

    rejection of traditional historical methods and practices

  • Realism view of power politics - Hans Morgenthau

  • Kenneth Waltz and system level analysis

  • Challenging Realism - Constructivism and Katzenstein

    Significant aspects of international relations are socially constructed

  • Contemporary Constructivism - Wendt

    emphasis on the meaning of the material objects, rather than their mere existence