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Theory is Everywhere
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A collection of theoretical approaches that analyze the role of gender in global politics.
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An understanding and appreciation of the shared human experience and the ties that bind people together across nations, borders, and cultures.
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A branch of realist thought that believes the root cause of conflict is the aggressive nature of humans.
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The belief that gender equality is best achieved when we restructure the system in order to change what society values in terms of work, leadership, and politics and what society constructs as normal.
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The view that people and the countries representing them are capable of cooperating to achieve common goals, often through global organizations and according to international law.
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A branch of liberal thought that attributes cooperation to human nature and the understanding that people can achieve more collectively than individually.
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A theoretical perspective that seeks to transform international relations to emphasize peace, individual freedom, and prosperity by replicating models of liberal democracy globally through various foreign policy objectives.
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The belief that gender equality is best achieved through political and legal reform so that women have equal access and equal opportunity in the workplace, politics, and other public spaces.
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Refers to the ways in which multiple institutions of oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, and classism) are interconnected and cannot be understood separately from one another.
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The branch of liberalism that recognizes the inherent conflict in an anarchic global system but asserts it can be eased by building global and regional organizations and processes that allow actors to cooperate for their mutual benefit.
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The view that changing ideas, norms, and identities of global actors shape global politics.
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The philosophy of Karl Marx that the economic order determines political and social relationships. Thus, history, the current situation, and the future are determined by the economic struggle, which is termed dialectical materialism.