The history of the discipline of International Relations

By Assel
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    IR as a discipline

    was born after the Great War (1914-1917)
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    Classical phase

    universities
    think tanks
    academic journals and professional bodies
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    The "First Great Debate"

    Liberalism vs realism (1939/48)
    Carr (1939/46)
    Morgenthaus (1948)
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    Reestablishment

    Reestablishment of the discipline WW2

  • The "Second Great Debate"

    behaviouralism vs traditionalism

  • the third great debate

    new liberalism vs neorealism
    was also called as neo-neo debate or interparadigm
    1960-1970s the rapid development of IRs ( new academic department in US, UK and europe)

  • the forth great debate

    rationalism vs constructivism (epistemological or post-positivist debate) is about how should we study IRs. Post-positivist in IR rejects the possibility of a science of IR.