Marxism
Feminism
Realism
Liberalism
Other IR Theories
100

Lays out the principles of communism and is a mass produced work appealing to the working class

What is the Communist Manifesto?

100

Scholars identify and explain how the essential theories, concepts, and case studies of International relations were biased due to gender discrimination

Feminist IR theories

100

More important than ideology for realists

What is national interest?

100

Is the main driver for peace between states

What is self-interest?

100

International politics is shaped by persuasive ideas, collective values, culture, and social identities

What is constructivism?

200

Elite that enforces policy to keep people in their place

What is the Bourgeoisie?

200

Argues wasted talent

What is liberal feminism?

200

In order for a state to gain something, another must lose something

What is a zero-sum game?

200

Hands-off approach to economics

What is Laissez-faire?

200

Idea that there is a state then a nation. About ideas, values 

What is civic nationalism?

300

Political systems, legal systems, culture

What is the superstructure?

300

Sees women as inherently less warlike and moire suitable for making peace

What is difference feminism?
300

Doing something defensive that threatens others

What is a security dilemma?

300

Sets of norms, rules, and practices created by states and other actors to facilitate order, coexistence, justice, and human development

What is international law?

300

Economy oriented to the European colonizer’s market, no attention to crops people need to survive, local groups lose their land

What are the economic effects of colonialism?

400

Countries that are on-democratic, export raw materials, import manufacturing, below subsistence wages, no welfare services

What are periphery states?

400

Argues liberal feminism focuses too much on white, middle-class women

What is critical feminist theory?

400

Type of realism where states seek security over anything

What is neorealism?

400

The state represents subgroups of society

What is neoliberalism?
400

Leaders feed nationalism to control population and create threats to spur nationalism

What is elite nationalism?
500

Economics drive history, form the base structure of society, and history is one of class struggles

What is economic determinism?

500

Uncovering the pervasive hidden influences of gender in international politics

What is poststructural feminism?

500

Idea that states have the authority to make and enforce laws within their own territory

What is statism?

500

The individual is the unit of analyses in this ideology

What is classical realism?

500

Legend or story that nationalist ideology can often be built upon

What is a myth of founding?

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