ir kill me

Walter Russel Mead

Jeffersonian, Hamiltonian, jacksonian, wilsonian; the world needs a hamiltonian approach because the world is becoming increasingly economic interdependent

Anne-Marie Slaughter

reviewed ir basic theories; no one theory is sufficient; covered english school and critical approaches

Jack Snyder

reviewed various theories in the context of the post-9/11 world. realism was right about militarism, wrong about nonstate actors. realism can explain ethnic conflicts. hard to explain the no power balance. liberalism was right about institutions, hard to explain the violence in emerging democratic powers. and nonstate actors being important.

Stephen Walt

No single approach can work. reviewed things about realism (off/def), liberalism, constructivism. constructivism was legitimized by cold war. realism generally prevails but we need to use everything

Kenneth Waltz

law is correlation w/ given probability, theories set out to explain those laws

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye Jr.

U.S. soft power; defecit advantage; obsession with real power is our downfall; constructivist pov; globailizaiton is irreversible; some issues require united efforts

Alexander Wendt

ANARCHY IS WHAT STATES MAKE OF IT; anarchy doesn’t logically procure a specific response so it doesn’t

Ian Hurd

legitimacy is what guides state behavior in an anarchic system… what is legitimacy? (a social construct)

Robert D. Kaplan

West Africa as a case study. environmental ruin → rural goes to urban → ethnic conflict and religious values destroy state infastructure → nations and borders crumble → anarchy and violence from people who just want war → politics should be linked again to resources and bordersF

Francis Fukuyama

The end of history. liberal democracy is the final form of historical evolution; future events will become more and more prevalent in relation to democracy

Errol A. Henderson

racism in plain sight. racism in anarchy and conceptual founding fathers. racism in democratic peace. abstraction as virtuous welcomes racist writing

Samuel Huntington

clash of civilizations. world is divided into a certain amount of civilization. civilizations WILL clash as civilization consciousness (awareness of civilization differences etc). religion gives presence to transnational connections. cultural diffferences are more innate and less resolvable