International relations and diplomacy Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Summary of the reading materials for the final exam (2023) for Analyzing International Relations. INCLUDES notes, the puzzle/motivation and core ideas/arguments from (Total: 31 pages): Alexander Wendt’s article (1992) “Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics”, pp. 391-425. Ayşe Zarakol’s introduction (2017) “Theorising Hierarchies” in Zarakol’s (ed.) “Hierarchies in World Politics”, pp. 1-14. Henry Farrell & Abraham L. Newman’s a...

World citizenship and critical thinking are two key objectives of our university and also prioritized in this course. This course is an exploration through three thousand years of world politics. It is an ambitious venture, no doubt, but there is no shortcut. If theory brings you instantly to abstract suppositions, history allows you to discover its context, to retrieve the origins of these broad ideas, and to judge them more critically on their merits. History is also what allows future leaders...

Realism - Answer-state seeks material power and economic power Neorealism - Answer--States are rational unitary actors -States seek security not power -Relative Power and zero-sum Liberalism - Answer--Cooperation -Critical theory - realism and liberalism are not logical -absolut gains Neoliberalism - Answer-institutions matter Constructivism - Answer-based on an ideational ontology, rather than a material ontology. Thus constructivism is posed against both realism and liberalism Alexan...

This document includes a concise summary of the material studied during the course International and Global Communication (CM2001). This includes the lectures from week 1 to 8 and the following articles: Francis Fukuyama - The End of History?; Samuel T. Huntington - The Clash of Civilizations?; Brian David Johnson - Science Fiction Prototypes Or: How I learned to stop worrying about the future and love science fiction; Renee Hobbs - Propaganda in an Age of Algorithmic Personalization - Expandin...

Readings covered: Introduction, Waltz (1959) Here's Why Mearsheimer's Realist Take is So Exasperating, Pepinksy (2022) Global International Relations and Regional Worlds, Acharya (2014) Theoretical Perspectives of Global Political Economy, O'Brien and Williams (2016) Social Forces, States, and World Orders, Cox (1981) Anarchy is What States Make of it, Wendt (1992) Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and Politics of Identity, Campbell (1998) Is something rotten in the st...

IB Global Politics Latest Update Graded A+ Realism is an approach to the study and practice of international politics. It emphasizes the role of the nation-state and makes a broad assumption that all nation-states are motivated by national interests, or, at best, national interests disguised as moral concerns. Liberalism With the proper institutions and diplomacy, ________ believes that states can work together to maximize prosperity and minimize conflict. Marxism is a political a...

International Relations - Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. States - Sovereign countries that comprise the international system Sovereign - All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. International System - Anarchic in the sense that there is no overarching government, though that does not imply that it is disorderly. No state in it is fully independent, and no state can provide f...

POWER : the ability of one person/country to get another person/country to act in accordance with the first person's intentions HARD POWER : The reliance on coercive economic and military strength to solve international problems. SOFT POWER : The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems. SMART POWER : Combination of hard power of coercion and payment with soft power of persuasion and attraction ECONOMIC POWER 2 | P a g e : Gaining power and influence...

Realism - Answer is an approach to the study and practice of international politics. It emphasizes the role of the nation-state and makes a broad assumption that all nation-states are motivated by national interests, or, at best, national interests disguised as moral concerns. Liberalism - Answer With the proper institutions and diplomacy, ________ believes that states can work together to maximize prosperity and minimize conflict. Marxism - Answer is a political and social theory th...

unipolar - Where one nation controls most global power (e.g. Britain in the time of its empire) bipolar - Where two nations control global power (e.g. US and British Empire in first part of 20th century) multipolar - an international system in which there are several states or great powers of roughly equal strength or weight hard power - The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems. soft power - a persuasive approach to international relations, typically i...