Varieties of Liberalism: Liberal thinking on international relations can be dimly perceived in the various plans for peace articulated by philisophers from the sixteenth century onwards.Such thinkers rejected the idea that conflict was a natural condition for relations between states‚one which could only be tamed by the careful management of power through balance of power policies and the construction of alliances against the state which threatened international order.In 1517 Erasmus first iterated a familiar
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The disciple of international relations (IR)‚ like all the social sciences‚ needs theories to make sense of the world it is trying to examine. There are many contrasting and conflicting views advocated by differing schools of thought within IR. The merits and faults of each school of thought have been contested in what are known as the ‘great debates’. The debates were triggered by real world events such as the Abyssinia Crisis‚ and the failure of the League of Nations in the 1930s. These real world
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Brian Rodriguez & Gustavo Guerra Ms. Coulter World History AP 7 October 2013 Chapter 9 Notes Eastern and Western Europe Division Byzantine culture‚ political organization‚ and economic orientation help to explain the rift between the eastern and western versions of Christianity. Different rituals grew from Greek and Latin versions of the Bible. Emperors resisted papal attempts to interfere in religious issues. Hostility greeted the effort of the Frankish king‚ Charlemagne‚ to be recognized
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Which structural realist theory offers the best guide for US policymakers as China continues to rise - Waltz’s defensive realism or Mearsheimer’s offensive realism? Donnelly (2005‚ p.29) stated ‘Realist theory is the oldest and most frequently adopted theory of international relations.’ Most realist work since the 1970’s has been relatively structural‚ largely as a result from the influence of Waltz’s ‘theory of international politics’ (Donnelly‚ 2005‚ p.35) When it comes to structural realists
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Realist theories the following key assumption: 1 The international system is anarchic. There is no authority above state capable of regulating their interactions: states must arrive at relation with other state on their own‚ rather than it being dictated to them by some other higher controlling entity. 2 Soverign states are the principal actors in the international system and the social attention is afforded to great power as they have most leverage on the international stage. International instituttion
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Reflexivity‚ Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research Farhana Sultana1 Department of Geography‚ King’s College London‚ The Strand‚ London WC2R 2LS U.K. +44 (0) 207 987 6667 Email: farhana.sultana@kcl.ac.uk Abstract There are critical disjunctures between aspects of everyday behaviour in the field and the University’s institutional frameworks that aim to guide/enforce good ethical practice‚ as the conduct of fieldwork is always contextual
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Critical Realism versus Social Constructivism in International Relations Roxana Bobulescu Abstract: This article discusses the methodological differences between the British school and the American school of international relations. It attempts to demonstrate that Susan Strange‚ representative of the British school‚ could be considered a critical realist. The aim of the article is to show that her vision of international political economy fulfills the methodological reorientation initiated
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Gender and International Relations: A Global Perspective and Issues for the Caribbean Author(s): Jessica Byron and Diana Thorburn Source: Feminist Review‚ No. 59‚ Rethinking Caribbean Difference (Summer‚ 1998)‚ pp. 211232 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395731 . Accessed: 04/01/2011 09:15 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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feminist International Relations (IR) theory to the discipline as a whole is fraught with complexities; not only is feminist discourse a multifaceted branch of competing theories employing separate epistemologies‚ it is also a somewhat marginalised field within the study of IR. In their different ways‚ feminist theorists aim to expose gender biases embedded in conventional IR theories‚ such as realism and liberal institutionalism‚ and to reconstruct gender-neutral outlooks of international politics
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conservative theories of idealism and realism and the transformative theory of Marxists. Intro: Critically discuss the similarities and the difference of conservative theories and transformative or critical theories. These theories entail idealism‚ realism in contrast liberalism and Marxism. 5 Main assumptions to draw a concluding contrats between a Marxist transformative theory and theories of idealism and realism” Assumption 1 Firstly‚ like Realism‚ Marxist transformative theory assumes that
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