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Realism
o States
o Sovereignty
o Power
o National interest
o Balance of power
o Diplomacy
o Self help
o Neorealism
Structure
nternational system
Rules
Multipolarity - unipolarity
Liberalism
o Norms
o nternational regimes
o nterdependence
Marxist
o Capitalist economy
o Class
o Class interest
o Core/semi core/ periphery
o Dominance of global capitalism
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Social Constructivism
o Mid-1990s/disintegration of soviet empire
o Human agency potential
o Social World is external to the people
o Anarchy is what states make of it
Post Structuralism
o Past 15 years
o Lyotard: simplifying to the extreme i define post modern as
ncredulity towards metanarratives
o Scepticism to foundational epistemology
o Michael foucault
o Knowledge is not immune from the workings of power
o Power in fact produces knowledge
Post colonialism
o Military and economic subordination of the global South by powerful
western interests
Globalization
Realist: globalization does not alter the territorial division of the World into
nation states
Liberal: globalization shows that states are no longer central actors
Marxist: latest stage in the development of international capitalism
Constructivist: we can mould globalization
Post-structuralists: it is a discourse and does not exist out in the World.
9 features
n favour of globalization
Objections
Chapter 2 Globalization
Hyperglobalists
o The demise of the sovereign nation-state as global forces undermine
the ability f governments to control or manage their own economies
and societies
Sceptics
o States and geopolitics remain the principal agents and forces
shaping World politics today.
Transformationalist
o Both are exaggerate their arguments
o The distinction between domestic and international affairs is no
longer very meaningfull