History of the discipline of International Relations

By kanybekova0204

  • Think tanks

    Think tanks
    1910 - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1916- Brookings Institution 1920- Royal Institute of Foeign Affairs 1958- International Institute for Strategic Studies

  • First establishment of the discipline

    First establishment of the discipline
    LIBERALISM - Question: How to avoid war?
    Developments to save harmony, that must be accomplished through the equalization of intensity.

  • Teaching and research in universities

    Teaching and research in universities
    1919 - Woodrow Wilson Chair of International Politics (University of Wales, Aberystwyth); 1923 - International Relations Department (London School of Economics); 1930 - Montague Burton Chair of International Relations (University of Oxford)
    In the US: Harvard, Chicago, Princeton

  • Practical and institutional measures

    Practical and institutional measures
    1920 - League of Nations at Geneva; 1922 - Permanent Court at The Hague

  • Academic journals and professional associations

    Academic journals and professional associations
    International Affairs published by The Chatham House;
    The British Review of International Studies published by The British Institution of Studies Association;
    American International Studies published by American International Studies Association (ISA)
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    First "Great Debate"

    Liberalism vs Realism
    (ontological debate=what do we study?)

  • Second establishment of the discipline

    Second establishment of the discipline
    REALISM - Question: Why states are conflictual?
    Subject of investigation: power and state-premium;
    Carr, Morgenthau
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    Second "Great Debate"

    This is epistemological debate between behaviourism and traditionalism.
    The most effective method to aquire familiarities ?
    For behaviourists, economy can develop general laws to predict human behaviour. For traditionalists, the disciplin has to be more interpretative.
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    Third "Great Debate"

    This is an ontological debate, called the "inter-paradigme" or "neo-neo" debate between neo-realism, neo-liberalism and the ermeging neo-marxism.
    Waltz, Keohane and Cox are the main thinkers representing those three theories
    The agreement about the idea of the order is presently supplanted by a bigger range of methodologies.
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    Fourth "Great Debate"

    This is an epistemological debate between rationalism (positivist approach) and constructivism; called the "post positivist debate"