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Names Flashcards

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Realism

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Thucydides: thucydides trap, Melian dialogue, 3 core tenets
Machiavelli: core tenet security/survival main goal of states
Hobbes: self-help principle + anarchy + state
Morgenthau: states act to national security interest, classical realism
Waltz: internal and external balancing + bandwagoning (neorealism), defensive neorealism
Maersheimer: realpolitik, offensive neorealism
Herz: security dilemma
Jack Snyder: imperial stretch (neoclassical realism)
Aron
EH Carr (classical realism)

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Thucydides

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  • thucydides trap
  • melian dialogue
  • 3/4 core tenets realism (state as central actor, state as rational actor, state as unitary actor)
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Machiavelli

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  • realism (realpolitik)
  • 4th core tenet: primary goal/responsibility of the state is survival/security
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Hobbes

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  • realism
  • additional tenet of self-help (states operate in an insecure state of nature, anarchy shapes state behavior)
  • principle of the state + social contract
  • war of all against all
  • fear and I were born twins together (1588: Spanish invasion UK)
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Morgenthau

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  • states act according to national security interest
  • classical realist
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Waltz

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  • neorealism
  • internal and external balancing + bandwagoning
  • defensive neorealism
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Maersheimer

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  • realism (realpolitik)
  • offensive neorealism
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Herz

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  • realism
  • security dilemma
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Jack Snyder

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  • imperial stretch
  • neoclassical realism
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EH Carr

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classical realism

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Grotius

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  • liberalism
  • law of the sea
  • mentioned with piracy
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Adam Smith + Cobden

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  • economic liberalism
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Liberalism
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Grotius (law of the sea)
Adam Smith
Kant (Kentian Triangle)
Woodrow Wilson
Keohane (liberal institutionalism)
Ikenberry (liberalism 1.0 etc. + liberal internationalism/ILO)
Bentham (international + international law)

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Kant

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  • liberalism
  • Kentian Triangle
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Woodrow Wilson

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  • idealism
  • 14 points
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Keohane

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  • liberal institutionalism
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Ikenberry

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  • Liberalism
  • stages of liberalism (1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
  • liberal internationalism
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Bentham

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  • liberalism
  • international
  • law
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Constructivism

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Wendt: anarchy is what we make of it
Nye: soft power (e.g. Gorbachev + end cold war)
Finnemore and Sikkink: norm life cycle
Tannenwald: nuclear taboo
Weber: verstehen v. erklaren
Foucault, Derrida, Giddens (powerpoint)

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Wendt

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  • constructivism
  • anarchy is what we make of it (self-fulfilling prophecy)
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Nye

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  • constructivism
  • soft powe
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Finnemore and Sikkink

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  • constructivism
  • norm life cycle
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Tannenwald

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  • constructivism
  • nuclear taboo
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Du Bois

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non-western IR
- racial origins first world war
- main conflict is of the color line
- international order = international racial hierarchy
- rather than looking at inter-state relations we should look at the states together and who they exploited/discriminated

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marxism

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  • Marx
  • Engels
  • Lenin
  • Hobson
  • Cox
  • Gramcsi
  • Wallerstein
  • Frankfurt School
  • Latin American Dependency school
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Marx + Engels

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  • marxism
  • historical materialism
  • social classes
  • class conflict
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Lenin

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  • marxism
  • processes of capitalist accumulation led to colonial expansion: international expansion for monopoly of industrial-financial capital
    Imperialism is the end stage of capitalism, first there has to be imperial rivalry, then the social revolution can take place
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Hobson

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  • marxism
  • capitalism had problems: markets weren’t sufficient: overproduction, underconsumption, oversavings -> constant need to grow in order to survive
  • explains imperialism as capitalism expansion that was necessary to overcome these problems
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Wallerstein

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  • marxism
  • world systems theory
  • every system is historically bound
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Gramsci

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  • marxism
  • gramscianismc
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Cox

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  • marxism
  • '’neogramscianist’’
  • ruling hegemonic ideas that are accepted/socialized are a reflection of social relations
  • theory is always for some one and for some purpose
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Frankfurt School

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  • marxism
  • working class has been absorbed, no longer poses a threat
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Latin American Dependency school

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  • marxism
  • distinction core and periphery
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Walker

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  • inside/outside dualisms (binary distinctions)
  • critical approach
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Allison (2017)

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describes the Thucydides trap
- as a warning of realist thinking/logic
- Thucydides isn’t inevitable
- encourages states to act rationally

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Weber

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  • Constructivism
  • Verstehen v. Erklaren
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Cynthia Enloe

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  • feminism
  • where are the feminists
  • bananas, beaches and bases (book)
  • Links tourism, agriculture, and US military bases that need exploited female workers to maintain themselves

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