Theorists Flashcards
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Who are examples of classical realist theorists?
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- Hans Morgenthau - ‘animus dominandi’ - the human lust for power.
- Thucydides - the idea that the strong dominate the weak and the weak should just accept that - state egoism.
- Niccolo Machiavelli - believed that ethics did not apply to states, only to the individual.
- Thomas Hobbes
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Who are examples of structural realists?
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- John Mearsheimer (offensive realism) - ‘ the biggest, baddest dude on the block’.
- Kenneth Waltz
- Stephen Walt, Mastando (defensive realism).
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Who are examples of interdependence liberals?
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They believe that free trade encourages economic interdependence and this makes war costly and unthinkable.
- Joseph Nye (three dimensional power)
- Joshua Goldstein ‘winning the war on war’.
- Johann Norberg (loves economic globalisation)
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Who are examples of republican liberals?
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Believe that the spread of democracy creates peace.
- Michael Doyle (the democratic peace thesis and ‘zones of peace’).
- Immanuel Kant (perpetual peace theory)
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Who are examples of liberal institutionalists?
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- John Burton (the cob-web model)
- Woodrow Wilson (collective security turns the ‘jungle of international politics into a zoo’.
- Robert Keohane
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What is the view of transformationalists?
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They offer a halfway position on globalisation between Realists and Liberals. To them, the distinction between domestic and international affairs is no longer meaningful.
