Int Rel Theo War

Neorealism(Waltz)

Offensive Realism(Mearsheimer)

International Relations Theory of War(Israeli)

Possible International Systems

•

Multipolar

• 
  

Bipolar

•

Balanced Multipolar and Unbalanced Multipolar

• 
  

Bipolar

•

Multipolar

• 
  

Bipolar

• 
  

Unipolar

Order Principles Controlling the International System

In an international system, there is a sole transhistorical order principle,

anarchy

,

which dictates to the players to take two main courses of action:

•

Balancing

• 
  

Bandwagoning

In an international system, there is a sole transhistorical order principle,

anarchy

, which

dictates to the players to take two main courses of action:

•

Buck-passing

in multipolar

systems

• 
  

Balancing

in bipolar systems

In an international system, there are two transhistorical order principles:

•

Anarchy

, in the sense of the absence of

a common regime, leads the system to spur the players, primarily the polar powers constituting it, to tend always to expansion

or formation of a hegemony for

them to head

• 
  

Homeostasis

, in the sense of a property of

the system that resists change, leads the system to

dictate

to players, primarily

the polar powers constituting it, to tend always to

stagnation

and preserve the

system in its existing state

Direction of Influence of the Analysis Units on the Outcomes in the System

Bottom up (inductive).Analysis units at the state level—

balancing

and

bandwagoning

—are what affect

the outcomes at the system level

Bottom up (inductive).Analysis units at the state level—

balancing

and

buck-

passing

—are what affect the

outcomes at the system level

Top down (deductive).An analysis unit at the system level—polarity of the system

—is what affects the

two international outcomes: systemic and intrasystemic

Table 2.4Neorealism, Offensive Realism, and the

International Relations Theory of War