International Relations // Definitions & Concepts

agency versus. structure debate

balance of power

balancing

bandwagoning

bargaining

behaviouralism

bipolarity

buck-passing

central wars

'clash of civilisations' thesis

compliance

defection

defensive realists

democratic peace

deterrence

discourse

empiricism

epistemology

'explaining & understanding'

foundationalism

great debates

hegemon & hegemony

hegemonic stability

hegemonic war

incommensurability

interdependence

international institutions

international regimes

meta-theory

methodology

monadic

multipolarity

offence-defence balance

offensive realists

ontology

paradigm

positivism

post-positivism

principal-agent theory

Prisoner's Dilemma

rationalism / rationalist theory

rationality

revisionist states

security dilemma

sovereignty

status quo states

theory

unipolarity

classical approach

dyadic

agency

capitalism

colonialism

communitarianism

competition state

dialectical understanding of history

logic of appropriateness

logic of communication

logic of consequences

order