There are three main theories in analysis of international relationships, which not only dictate how countries interact between each other, but also how they work on the inside. These theories are liberalism/neoliberalism, realism/neorealism and radicalism, the bases of which are thought to be the works of philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jaques Rousseau respectively (as well as some earlier works that influenced theirs). Nearly any political system you can think of is some mixture or variation of liberalism, realism or radicalism.
by NoNotice2137
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Or Han Fei Zi.
I’d add Marx to the mix (even if he were influenced by Rousseau)
Rousseau >>>>>
Ron feels more like Rousseau to me
The common denominator here is contractualism.
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I’ve never heard of “radicalism” as a major school of thought in IR. It would appear that the third major school is constructivism.