neo-realism
- io’s are instruments ffor powerful states to pursue their national interests
- states make cost-beenfit calculations and then decide it its wise to use an io or not
liberal institutionalism
- states are unitary actors but they are independent
- io’s enable cooperation among states by reducing transaction costs
- cooperation games: by creating these frameworks for states to interact repeatedly, the cooperation costs are reduced- states learn eachothers behaviour and reactions
liberalism
- states are plural actoes- democracies may have diferent intersts than autocracies
- cooperation because of- learning from other’s mistakes, shared values, economic interdependence
- democracies will peacefully cooperate
social constructivism
- io’s are autonomous actors who shape world politics and the interests of the state
- constitutive power: organizations have the power to shape the interests of the states
critical theories
IOs embed global capitalism, patriarchic and imperial structures and are representitives of hegemonic structures.
neo realism- actors
states
neo-institutionalism- actors
states and ios
liberalism- actors
states and their domestic constitutencies, ios
constructivism- actors
states, io’s, non-state actors
critical theories- actors
transnational elites, io’s
neo realism- origins
hegemonic interests, relational gains
neo institutionalism- origins
interest contestellations
liberalism- origins
domestic politics
constructivism- origins
advocacy coalitions, norm entrepreneurs
critical theories- origins
neo-liberal elites, patriarchy, hegemony
neo realism- roles
marginal
neo institutionalism- roles
reduction of uncertainty and transaction costs
liberalism- roles
divers (from commercial to world peace
constructivism- roles
transformative, independent, bureaucratic authority
critical theories-roles
replicate material/gender based power structures
