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Important Concepts

Brief Revision

Overview of Realism
Classical Realism:
1. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War;
2. Machiavelli The Prince;
3. Thomas Hobbes The Leviathan;
4. E. H. Carr The Twenty Years Crisis: 1919 - 1939;
5. Morgenthau Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for
Power & Peace (6 core principles of realism);
Neorealism:
1. Balance of Power;
2. Kenneth Waltz Theory of International Politics;
3. Defensive and Offensive Structural Realism;
4. Stephen Walt Alliance Formation and the Balance of World
Power;

Overview of Liberalism
Classical Liberalism:
1. John Locke Two Treaties of Government;
2. Jeremy Bentham The Principles of International Law;
3. Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace (Republican
Government);
Modern Liberalism:
1. Karl Deutsch & Sociological Liberalism;
2. Commercial Liberalism;
3. Michael Doyle & The Democratic Peace Thesis Ways of War
and Peace;
4. Robert Keohane & Neoliberal Institutionalism After
Hegemony;
Criticism of Liberalism

Definitions:
International Relations
Foreign Policy
3 Levels of Analysis
Nation, State and Nationstate
Sovereignty
Globalisation
Non-state actors (IGOs &
NGOs)

Multi-national
Corporations (or TNCs)
National & Human
Security
Social Contract
General Will
Four Grand Debates
Hegemony
Mercantilism
Norms

Overview of Realism
5. Security Dilemma;
6. John Mearsheimer The Tragedy of Great Power
Politics & The False Promise of International
Institutions;
7. Robert Gilpin War and Change in World Politics;
8. Rise and Fall Realism;
9. Thomas Schelling & Strategic Realism;
Neoclassical Realism;
1. Schwellers Balance of Interest Theory;
Criticism of Realism

Social Constructivism
Main assumptions of Social Constructivism;
Norms and Lifecycles (Finnemore & Sikkink)
Middle Ground Approach:
1. Alexander Wendt Anarchy is What State make of it: The
Social Construction of Power Politics (paper) & Social
Theory of International Politics (book);
2. Nicholas Onuf World of Our Making;
Self-Reflexive:
1. Friedrich Kratochwil Rules, Norms and Decisions;
Pragmatic & Discursive Approach:
1. Christian Reus-Smit Moral Purpose of the State
Copenhagen School

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International Society English School

Main Assumptions of the International Society

Martin Wight
Hedley Bull The Anarchical Society