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The history of the discipline of International Relations

By katkababy

  • IR was born as a discipline

    IR was born as a discipline
    The new discipline had liberal tenets like Sir Norman Angell or Woodrow Wilson

  • Start of the institutionalization of IR

    Start of the institutionalization of IR
    Universities, academic journals, professional associations, think tanks

  • Birth of IGOs (1920s - 30s)

    Birth of IGOs (1920s - 30s)
    Collaboration to overcome the crisis. The world order became institutionalized

  • The first great debate (1930s - 40s)

    The first great debate (1930s - 40s)
    Ontological debate between liberalism and realism

  • E. H. Carr: The Twenty Years' Crisis

    E. H. Carr: The Twenty Years' Crisis
    Criticism of the liberals

  • Re-establishment of the discipline

    Re-establishment of the discipline

  • Hans Morgenthau: Politics Among Nations

    Hans Morgenthau: Politics Among Nations

  • The second great debate (1950s - 60s)

    The second great debate (1950s - 60s)
    Epistemological debate between traditionalism and behaviouralism

  • The third great debate (1960s - 70s)

    The third great debate (1960s - 70s)
    Ontological debate between neo-liberalism and neo-realism (neo-Marxism)

  • Birth of NGOs (1970s)

    Birth of NGOs (1970s)
    Societal actors became important and acted independently from governments

  • The fourth great debate (1970s - 80s)

    The fourth great debate (1970s - 80s)
    Epistemological debate between constructivism and rationalism