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Development of Contemporary International Relation Theories
QIN Ya-qing
2004, (7):
56-63.
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This paper is meant to discuss the development of international relation theories and their developmental tendency. The period between 1919 and 1948 witnessed the start of international relation theories with idealism as the leading thought. Idealism aimed at an imaginary peaceful world out of reflections on World War Ⅰ. The period between World WarⅡ and 1979 saw the prevalence of realism when, against the background of World War Ⅱ and the Cold War, Mor-genthau established the framework of realism, and Waltz’s neo-realism made great theoretical contribution, too. The period between 1979 and 1992 was one in which liberalism revived when neo-liberalism became a school with the most theoretical achievement, developing side by side with neo-realism. Since 1992, the school of constructivism has arisen. It stressed the function of ideal, and gradually gained equal ground with neo-liberalism and neo-realism. The author holds that international relation theories tend to contain more elements of evolutional thinking, politics of rights, with more inclination of multi-disciplinary in nature.
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