Theories in International Relations: Key Actors

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Name: Anacta, Raymond J.

Section: ABPOLSCI3A
Subject: Introduction to International Relations

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THEORIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

REALISM LIBERALISM CONSTRUCTIVISM

Individuals, Interest
Groups:
State, Institutions,
Key Actors State transnational
International Laws
activist networks,
norms entrepreneur
Mainly driven by its Is born essentially
self-interests and good; constantly Human nature is a
View of Individuals
survival; inherently improving; humans social construct
evil behave rationally
States interact with
Primary actor in
one another and
international States behave
form identities that
politics; monopoly rationally; State is a
View of State construct certain
of legitimate force, representative
norms and ideas
power and security institution
that shape the
maximizer
interaction as well

All institutions
Reality of
View of exists to promote
International international
International mutual cooperation
politics is anarchic; political life is
System in an anarchic
socially constructed
world

Major Theorists Thucydides, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Wendt


Hobbes Adam Smith,
Hans Morgenthau, Michael Doyle
E.H. Carr,
Kenneth N. Waltz

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