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Period: 450 BCE to
The classical phase
Old periods before institutionalization. The representatives of classical phase were: Thomas Hobbes, Machiavelli,J Rousseau , Immanuel Kant, Plat,Thucydides. -
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Think tanks
Carnegie Endowment for Int. Peace(1910)
Brookings Institute(1916)
The Royal Institute of International Affairs(1920)
The International Institute for Strategic Studies -
University of Wales(Aberystwyth) -as the 1st university/studying of IR
Woodrow Wilson was established by David Davies as a Chair of International politics. -
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The first establishment
IR was born as a discipline after a GW. The main question was "How to avoid war?" War as an instrument of foreign policy. Academic Framework : liberalism. -
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Practical and Institutional measures
League of Nations at Geneva(1920)
Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague(1922)
The new legislative principle of procedural justice emerged at this time. -
The London School of Economics
International Department was established. -
University of Oxford
Montague Burton- Chair of IR. -
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The 1st Great Debate
Ontological debate
Liberalism(IR is about a rule-based order) versus Realism (IR is about distribution of power). Main representatives of realism were E.H.Carr and H.Morgenthau. -
Edward Hallett Carr "Twenty years' crisis"
Criticism: the liberal interpretation of the state system. According to Carr Liberalism and Realism are two different ways of human thinking about how to acquire knowledge. -
H.Morgenthau -"Politics among nations"
He had developed broad framework of analysis. -
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The second establishment of IR as a discipline
The first great debate: Liberalism versus Realism.
Two foundational texts :
E.H.Carr - "The 20 year crisis"(1919-1939)
H.Morgenthau- "Politics among nations" (1948) -
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The 2nd Great Debate
Epistemological debate
Behavioralism(scientific method of acquiring knowledge) versus Traditionalism(classical method of acquiring knowledge) -
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The 3rd Great Debate
Ontological debate
Neo-neo debate or inter-paradigm debate.
This debate was between neo-realism(Waltz),neo-liberalism(R.Keohane) and Neo-marxism(R.Cox) -
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The 4th Great Debate
Epistemological debate between constructivism(post-positivism) and rationalism.
Alexander Wendt - "Social theory of international politics(1999)
