IR Lecture 9 Dominant Discourses Of The Long 1990 s 1989 200 The Expansion and transformations of modernty Darwin Marx Freud Nietzsche The Horrors Of World War I o Trench The Great Depression o The roaring 20 s o Market crashes 1929 WWII The Cold War o by 1980 Global Inequality o Reflecting the crucial all important center periphery process formation Dominant Discourses Of The Long 1990 s 1989 200 its defined simply as what people are writing and saying about a phenomenon the discourses of culturally powerful people and groups shape the understandings of others o Foucault argued that discourses produced what we come to as real they determine what can not just may be said and even what can be thought definition Recorded Discourses o the end of history a liberal peace and victory of the west o continued violence and insecurity mearsheimer version o Continued violence and insecurity Kaplan Version o Continued violence and insecurity Huntington version Francis Fukuyama o Quote o Large scale conflict world war People For Whom Fukuyama s Ideas Rang True o Proponents of democratic peace theory o International Institutionalists and regime theorists o Proponents of free trade and cross border investment as the pathways to peace August December 1991 Collapse Of the Soviet Union The Tragedy of Great Power Politics o John J Mearsheimer 43 min What is polarity o Diagram International System Power Transition Theory o by late 1990 s Kaplan Version 1 01 20 o The Coming Anarchy Fukayama mindless triumphalist Big Time realists Kissinger and Brzezinksi Which discourse was is and or will be the most powerful o MIDTERM How to answer it Was at a certain time X is the most powerful not the most accurate maybe Z will be more powerful in the future Fukuyama s End of History and related theories Mearsheimer s Realism Kaplan Coming Anarchy Huntington s Clash of Civilizations
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