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The reading by Weaver, introduces the inter-paradigm debate and the future of International Relat... more The reading by Weaver, introduces the inter-paradigm debate and the future of International Relations as a discipline. Realism, pluralism and Marxism are the three standard paradigms of IR, therefore when one is using the term 'inter-paradigm debate' (the third debate), it leaves many scholars with the image of three competing paradigms of IR, while not the number, but the form and content are important for the debate 1. According to Weaver, each paradigm, constructs its own basic concepts/units and questions, thus its data, criteria of judgment, 'language' and stories are narrated to suit its own views, hence paradigms are deemed as incommensurable.' 2 Each of the three schools, basically tells a different story of IR. The incommensurability and the variety of IR schools led to a triangular debate. On one hand, both realists and radicals, agree and recognize the role of power and struggle, unlike the liberals, and on the other, radicals and liberals, together attack the narrowness of the realists. 3 Liberalism was labeled as 'pluralism', given the many actors that it recognizes, while Marxism was labeled as 'structuralism' because it sees the whole system as much more organized and ordered. James Rosenau, coined terms such as state-centric, multi-centric and global centric, to capture the late 1970's debate. 4 The third debate did not give any winner, but it established a plurality within the IR debate and as an outcome it acknowledged that each paradigm contains it's own truth, that is valuable. 5 It was also focused on: politics (detente vs. power politics), ontology (the nature of IR) and methodology. The self-conception as 'incommensurable paradigm', its 'ontologically' different conception of nature, units and content of IR, and the three schools, make the third debate differ from the preceding two. 6 The third debate started by adopting 'incommensurability'

Constructivism, postmodernism and feminism are a shift from the classical concepts of realism and... more Constructivism, postmodernism and feminism are a shift from the classical concepts of realism and liberalism and their neo versions. Constructivism emphasizes the importance of both the normative and materialists structures and the role of identity in shaping political actions and the mutually constitutive relationship between agents and structures. 1 It regards international relations as a social and historical construct. Constructivism has been prompted due to: 1. The quest to move beyond theoretical critique to the substantive analysis of International Relations; 2. The lack in capacity within both the neo-realist and neo-liberalist thoughts, to predict and adequately comprehend the systematic transformations which reshaped the global order, after the Cold War; 3. The potential for innovation in conceptual elaboration and empirically informed theoretical development and 4. The analytical failings of the dominant rationalist theories. 2 For constructivists, the normative structures are as important as the material ones, in the process of shaping behavior and social identity of political and social actors. The meaning of the material can only be possible within a structure of shared knowledge. The constructivists, also argue that understanding the non-material structures have impact on identities and that identities actually inform interests, leading to actions. By understanding how the actors develop their interests,

This paper will present the mainstream views of the experts about the possible solutions in getti... more This paper will present the mainstream views of the experts about the possible solutions in getting out of the Eurozone crisis. On one side will be the arguments offered by Paul Krugman and on the other it will be the Greek political economist, Yanis Varoufakis , who offers a different approach toward a solution of the eurozone crisis.

The reading by Weaver, introduces the inter-paradigm debate and the future of International Relat... more The reading by Weaver, introduces the inter-paradigm debate and the future of International Relations as a discipline. Realism, pluralism and Marxism are the three standard paradigms of IR, therefore when one is using the term 'inter-paradigm debate' (the third debate), it leaves many scholars with the image of three competing paradigms of IR, while not the number, but the form and content are important for the debate 1. According to Weaver, each paradigm, constructs its own basic concepts/units and questions, thus its data, criteria of judgment, 'language' and stories are narrated to suit its own views, hence paradigms are deemed as incommensurable.' 2 Each of the three schools, basically tells a different story of IR. The incommensurability and the variety of IR schools led to a triangular debate. On one hand, both realists and radicals, agree and recognize the role of power and struggle, unlike the liberals, and on the other, radicals and liberals, together attack the narrowness of the realists. 3 Liberalism was labeled as 'pluralism', given the many actors that it recognizes, while Marxism was labeled as 'structuralism' because it sees the whole system as much more organized and ordered. James Rosenau, coined terms such as state-centric, multi-centric and global centric, to capture the late 1970's debate. 4 The third debate did not give any winner, but it established a plurality within the IR debate and as an outcome it acknowledged that each paradigm contains it's own truth, that is valuable. 5 It was also focused on: politics (detente vs. power politics), ontology (the nature of IR) and methodology. The self-conception as 'incommensurable paradigm', its 'ontologically' different conception of nature, units and content of IR, and the three schools, make the third debate differ from the preceding two. 6 The third debate started by adopting 'incommensurability'

Constructivism, postmodernism and feminism are a shift from the classical concepts of realism and... more Constructivism, postmodernism and feminism are a shift from the classical concepts of realism and liberalism and their neo versions. Constructivism emphasizes the importance of both the normative and materialists structures and the role of identity in shaping political actions and the mutually constitutive relationship between agents and structures. 1 It regards international relations as a social and historical construct. Constructivism has been prompted due to: 1. The quest to move beyond theoretical critique to the substantive analysis of International Relations; 2. The lack in capacity within both the neo-realist and neo-liberalist thoughts, to predict and adequately comprehend the systematic transformations which reshaped the global order, after the Cold War; 3. The potential for innovation in conceptual elaboration and empirically informed theoretical development and 4. The analytical failings of the dominant rationalist theories. 2 For constructivists, the normative structures are as important as the material ones, in the process of shaping behavior and social identity of political and social actors. The meaning of the material can only be possible within a structure of shared knowledge. The constructivists, also argue that understanding the non-material structures have impact on identities and that identities actually inform interests, leading to actions. By understanding how the actors develop their interests,

This paper will present the mainstream views of the experts about the possible solutions in getti... more This paper will present the mainstream views of the experts about the possible solutions in getting out of the Eurozone crisis. On one side will be the arguments offered by Paul Krugman and on the other it will be the Greek political economist, Yanis Varoufakis , who offers a different approach toward a solution of the eurozone crisis.