Postmodern international relations is an approach that has been part of international relations scholarship since the 1980s. Although there are various strands of thinking, a key element to postmodernist theories is a distrust of any account of human life which claims to have direct access to the truth. Postmodern international relations theory critiques theories like Marxism that provide an overarching metanarrative to history. Key postmodern thinkers include Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
Reception
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A criticism made of postmodern approaches to international relations is that they place too much emphasis on theoretical notions and are generally not concerned with the empirical evidence.
References
Bibliography
- Baylis, John; Smith, Steve (2005). The Globalization of World Politics (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
External links
- Bibliography of books and articles
International relations theory |
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| Realism |
- Classical realism
- Liberal realism
- Neoclassical realism
- Neorealism
- Offensive realism
- Defensive realism
- Relative gains
- Absolute gains
- Strategic realism
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| Liberalism |
- Idealism
- Democratic peace theory
- Republican liberalism
- Institutionalism
- Neoliberalism
- Interdependence liberalism
- Sociological liberalism
- Institutional liberalism
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| Constructivism |
- Modern constructivism
- Post-modern constructivism
- Feminist constructivism
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| Marxism |
- Neo-Gramscianism
- Critical security studies
- Critical theory
- World-systems theory
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| Other theories |
- International political economy
- Feminism
- Green theory
- Hegemonic stability theory
- The Copenhagen School
- Functionalism (Neofunctionalism)
- Postmodernism
- Postcolonialism
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| Classifications |
- Dependency theory
- Postpositivism
- Rationalism
- Reflectivism
- "Great Debates"
- Inter-paradigm debate
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| Other approaches |
- International ethics
- Historical sociology
- Regime theory
- State cartel theory
- Geopolitics
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| Scholars |
- Robert J. Art
- Ken Booth (academic)
- Ian Bremmer
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Hedley Bull
- E. H. Carr
- Daniel Deudney
- Michael W. Doyle
- Francis Fukuyama
- Robert Gilpin
- David Held
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Robert Jervis
- Peter J. Katzenstein
- George F. Kennan
- Robert Keohane
- Henry Kissinger
- Richard Ned Lebow
- John Mearsheimer
- Hans Morgenthau
- Joseph Nye
- Kenneth W. Thompson
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Stephen Walt
- Kenneth Waltz
- Alexander Wendt
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