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Marxism
- Is a rationalist theory (Post-Structuralist and Post Colonialist is reflectivist and emphasize role of language with in epistomology)
- Class struggle in IR
- Materialist conception of society
- Economics vital especially in world of capitalism: Tension between means of production and relations of production increaese with changes in means of production that create social change as well
Dependency Theory
- Core and periphery
- less developed countries and developed countries depend on one another but the relationship is explotive and the benefits are unevenly distributed
- Capitalism operates both intentionally and unintentionally to ensure that the basis of this relationship remains uneven
Examples of capitalism operation intentionally and unintentionally
1. Cutting back from trade because of economic recession
2. 70's and 80's have huge debt crisis because money was cheap but then % increased so countries went to WB in order to get money but had to liberalize economy to open market trading
Industries: Primary, Secondary, Tritiary
Primary: extraction of raw materials i.e., agriculture, mining (less developed)
Secondary: manufactures
Tritary: services
- Developed countries had mixture of 2nd and 3rd most world is primary - less convincing since OPEC nations have primary
World Systems Theory
World Empires vs World Economies: both can be center but leads from periphery to the core
-Semi periphery transitions b/w the two
Temporal aspect of Word Systems Theory
1) Cyclical Rhythms: Boom & Bust short term fluctuations in Economy
2) Secular Trends: Long-term growth and contraction of World Economy
3) Contradictions: unintended or undesireable consequences
4) Crisis ( replacement of other system when unsustainable)
The New Marxist
-Reinventing & re-emphasizing Marxist thought
-Rejects R's claim to be ahistoric
- impossible since theories of IR embeded in patterns of social relations and models of production that influence form of state and interstate relations
- economies determine politics
Gramsciansm 1
- Hegemony: Power and Coercion
- working class not interested in revolution b/c been bought of by higher power
- oppressed by civil society (church, clubs, through informal organization)
Gramsciansm 2
-Transfer from domestic to international society
- Traditional IR is subjective and so are facts
-Dominant powers manufactured consent to status quo e.g., free trade
Critical Theory
- Similar to Gramcianism but interested in International society and security and IPE
- Hegemony means working class no longer threat to the system
- Emancipation is core - emphasis on individuality
-more about maximizing welfare
-rights & obligations exceed state boundaries
-expansions of moral bounderies beyond states
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