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Think tanks
1910 - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1916 - Brookings Institution
1920 - Royal Institute of International Affairs
1958 - International Institute for Strategic Studies -
First establishment of the discipline
LIBERALISM - Question: How to avoid war?;
Movements to preserve peace, that could only be achieved through the balance of power -
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
1920 - League of Nations at Geneva;
1922 - Permanent Court at The Hague -
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
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Second establishment of the discipline
REALISM - Question: Why states are conflictual?;
Subject of analysis: power and state-interest;
Carr, Morgenthau -
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Second "Great Debate"
Behaviourism vs Traditionalism
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Third "Great Debate"
Neorealism vs Neoliberalism vs Neo-Marxism
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Fourth "Great Debate"
constructivism vs rational or positivist approaches (liberalism, realism and marxism)
(epistemological debate)