International Relations

  • End of the Classical Phase

    Plato, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Kant, Hobbes
  • Establishment of the discipline of Internatioanl Relations

  • League of Nations

    Geneva
  • Permanent Court of International Justice

    The Hague
  • International Relations Departament at LSE

  • Montague Burton Chair of International Relations

    University of Oxford
  • "The Twenty Years' Crisis"

    E. H. Carr
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    The 1st Great Debate

    Liberalism vs. Realism
  • "Politics Among Nations"

    Hans Morgenthau
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    The 2nd Great Debate

    Behaviouralism vs. Traditionalism:
    „what is the most appropriate way of pursuing and acquiring knowledge in international relations?”
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    The 3rd Great Debate

    Neo-liberalism(Robert O. Keohane), Neo-marxism (Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein) and Neo-realism (Kenneth Waltz)
  • “After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy"

    by Robert O. Keohane
  • Start of the 4th Great Debate

    Rationalism vs. Constructivism (Alexander Wendt)
  • “Social Theory of International Politics”

    by Alexander Wendt