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Welcome to Theories of International Relations Course Wiki

Part of an International Relations Theory course, this Wiki was designed as a collaborative effort to compile a database which can be used to inform readers of IR Theory. Feel free to navigate the topics on the left hand side of this page to learn more about some of the most well-known and frequently cited authors that are going to guide our expedition in making sense of the IR Theory.

What is IR Theory?
World politics is full of dramatic singular events: wars, financial crises, terrorist attacks, peace talks, revolutions, popular campaigns. International Relations (IR) theory helps us explain and understand those events by equipping us with the appropriate conceptual tools to place these events into context (from the Syllabus). See also: Modern Theories of International Relations

What are we discussing?
Throughout the course of this semester this wiki will feature the works of the following philosophers / authors / scholars:

Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince & The Discourses
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
John Locke - Two Treatises of Government
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace
G.W.F. Hegel - Introduction to The Philosophy of History & The Philosophy of Right
John Mearsheimer - "The False Promise of International Institutions"
Andrew Moravcsik - "Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics"
Alexander Wendt - "Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics"
Thomas Risse - "'Let's Argue!': Communicative Action in World Politics"
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson - "Bridging the Gap: Toward A Realist-Constructivist Dialogue"
J. Samuel Barkin - “Realist Constructivism”
J. Ann Tickner - “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists" & “Continuing the Conversation”
Robert Keohane - “Beyond Dichotomy: Conversations Between International Relations and Feminist Theory”
Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney - "InternationalInternational Relations and the Problem of Difference"Difference

In addition to:
Edward Halett Carr - "TwentyTwenty Years' Crisis"Crisis
Tzvetan Todorov - "ConquestConquest of America"America


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