IR Midterm - Thinkers

Wilsonian Approach

Dialogue as a manner in which to mitigate conflict

Wight → Rationalist

States can reason between themselves

Wight → Realist

Conflict & Balance of Power

Wight → Revolutionary

Use of hegemony to exploit poorer states

Keohane & Nye

Transnational organizations can place pressure on states & create interdependency between states

Agnew

Territorial trap, fallacies → dichonomy between foreign & domestic, fixed territories, states contain societies

Rawls

True justice is equity, not just equality

Lemel

In some spaces inequality is tolerated unlike others

Structural Inequality

Elements endemic to society, long term

Cyclical Inequality

Short term, resulting from a specific context

Crenshaw

Intersectionality

Abbenhuis & Morrell

Industrialization led to economic growth and globalization

Rodrick

“Slowbalization” → Slowing globalization

Rosneau

Turbulence results from globalization

Badie

Social movements are shaping the world, the state has a responsibility to its people

Zakaria

Illiberal democracies

Strange

Companies & private actors now possess structural power to make rules for themselves

Realist School

State as the only viable actor

Batistella

Origin of National interest

• Realist → State interest

• Liberal → Private interest

• Constructivist → Both popular culure & private interest

Tilly

The state emerges from conflict

Anderson

The state emerges from a narrative

The Bandung Conference (1955)

Fracturing of the 3rd world bloc

Legal Typology of states

Population, territory, government

Political Typology of State

size, strategy, global presence, robustness

Failed States

Meet legal typology but not political

Rogue States

Term weaponized against states that do not follow the American agenda

Hirchman

Strategies for NGOs → Voice, Exit, Loyalty