IR AS AN ACADEMIC SUBJECT

1. LIBERALISM

1.1. The new discipline of the RI was influenced by liberal ideas, after the First World War.

1.2. The president of the USA W. Wilson and the promotion of democracy, were the main influences of the RI

1.3. Liberalism failed because of the growth of the fascist dictatorship, and the failure of the League of Nations.

2. SECOND DEBATE

2.1. The competitors are traditionals and behaviouralists.

2.2. Traditional approach : try to understand the complicated social world of human affairs and the value fundamental to it such as order, freedom, and justice.

2.3. Behavioural approach: find no place for morality and ethics in international theory. wants to classify, measure and explain through the formulation of general laws like those formulated in the ‘hard’ sciences of chemistry, physics, etc.

3. THIRD DEBATE

3.1. In the 1960s and 1970s, neoliberalism challenged realism by arguing that interdependence, integration and democracy are changing IR

3.2. Neorealism responded that anarchy and the balance of power are still the heart of IR.

3.3. There is no clear winner of the third debate.

3.4. Within IPE , the discussion still continues.

4. MAIN THEORIES OF THE RI

4.1. Realism Liberalism International security IPE: International Political Economy

5. RI APPROACH

5.1. Human rights Transnational corporation International Organ The environment Gender inequality Development Terrorism,etc

6. REALISM

6.1. Realism was influenced by: Edward Hallett Carr and Hans J. Morgenthau