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Classical Phase
Pre - 1919 not part of the discipline and not included within the institutionalisation of IR.
Include: Morgenthau, Rousseau, Thucydides, Plato, Locke and Kant. -
Founding of Professorship at Aberystwyth University
IR emerged as an academic discipline in 1919 with the founding of the Woodrow Wilson Chair at the University of Wales. It was endowed by benefactor and philanthropist David Davies. -
First Establishment
World War One's culmination brought about the Treaty of Versailles and the creation of the League of Nations. This was brought about through the worldwide desire for peace after the Great War. -
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First Great Debate
Logical and Ontological debate
- Liberalism
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Second Establishment
Second incarnation of IR discipline. Which was created after the Second World War.
- Two key texts.
1.E.H Carr: The Twenty Years of Crisis in 1939
2. Hans Morgenthau: Politics among nations 1948 -
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The Second Great Debate
Includes the Logical debate and the epistemological debate.
- Behaviouralism
- Traditionalism -
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Third Great Debate
- Ontological
- Neo - Neo Debate
- Development of IR theories
- Neo-realism
- Waltz neo-realist theory
- Neo-liberalism
- 1970: the rise of the study of international interdependence -1984: Robert O. Keohane "After Hegemony Cooperation and discord in the World Political Economy"
- Neo - Marxism
- Global dominance and wealth created a divide between "North and South" leading to imbalances in living standards and economic power.
- Robert Cox
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Fourth Great Debate
- Logical debate
- Post-positivist debate
- How we should study IR
- Adequate tools and methods of analysis
- Constructivism
- Central question of today's discipline
- Alexander Wendt
- Rationalism
- Post-positivist approach
- James Fearon