In international relations it is so far interesting with the amount of theories that is involved. So far I have noticed even through through the chapter it states that IR revolves around Realism and Liberalism. Even in the reading it talks how it has to reword its wording and phrases because most of its terms have different meanings for other subjects. The example for this would be the term Realism being different in IR to the term Realism of a subject on art. The Theories that are presented in IR is Liberalism, Realism, Constructivism, Critical, Marxism, and Post colonialism. Each with their own meaning and own ideas that is viewed through the world. For starters on liberalism it was followed by Immanuel Kant and he believed that states shouldn’t be going to war if they all believed in that theory. As for the reason for that it was because in Liberalism it was the idea that the citizen ruled the country and not the the ruler, and so was the league of nations was created. The peace and theory of Liberalism didn’t last long till the beginning of WW2 that this theory fell and then Realism was created. I was amazed on how the theories just compete with on another so as one fails other ideas rise to replace that idea, and because of that our world is surrounded with these theories that we try to improve in.

Also to include in this is that in the reading I learned a little about the other theories. An example would be Constructivism and on how the strong individuals control the state and that they view anarchy differently from what realism views it. Then we have Critical Theory and that it is a complete opposite from everything else in that it it hold the presumption of IR in its field. This theory will identify points that were ignored by IR. Then we have Marxism and Postcolonialism in which Marxism is ideas from Karl Marx in that we are divided by business and working classes. A for postcolonialism we are in a inequality between the nations and regions, it also has most views on the western perspective. Finally it was interesting to know that their is sovereignty and that states in IR are completely different from the states we know and learned from school. For the most part a state in IR mostly refers to a country.

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