International Relations Midterm

Wilsonian Approach

Liberal idea of dialogue to avoid conflict

Wight

Rationalist → liberal states can reason between themselves

Realist → Conflict driven approach, mostly focusing on the balance of power

Revolutionary → Understanding of the use of hegemony to propogate the exploitation of poorer states by richer states

Keohane & Nye

Transnational organizations and movements can exert pressure on states, we are not in a transnational world, Westphalian order still stands

Agnew

“territorial trap” → fallacy that assumes

• States territories are fixed

• There is a dichotomy between domestic and foreign affairs

• States are containers of societies

Rosa

“Theory of social acceleration”

Rawls

True justice is equity not equality

Lemel

In some spaces inequality is deemed acceptable whereas not in others

Rostow

Model of development (traditional to high industrial, 5 stages)

Crenshaw

Intersectionality

Abbenhuis & Morrell

Industrialization led to economic growth, globalization, and a global financial system

Rodrik

“Slowbalization” post Covid

Rosnau

Unexpected turbulence comes from globalization

Badie

Social movements are shaping the world, 1999 altermondalist movement as a turning point

Zakaria

Illiberal Democracies

Strange

Batistella

Where does national interest come from?

Realism → State interest

Liberalism → Private interest

Anderson

The state emerges from a narrative

Legal typologies of States

Population, territory, government

Political typologies of states

size, robustness, perceived strategy, global presence

Hirschman

Exit, voice, loyalty (strategies for NGOs)