Theorists and Thinkers in IR

IR Theorists and Thinkers

Know your IR theorist or thinker? Scroll over the images to see who has influenced your worldview!

Elliott Abrams Theodor Adorno Fouad Ajami Louis Althusser Stephen Ambrose St Thomas Aquinas Hannah Arendt Aristotle Richard Ashley St Augustine Jean Baudrillard John Baylis Daniel Bell Walden Bello Saul Bellow Jeremy Bentham Allan Bloom Max Boot Ken Booth Scott Burchill Edmund Burke Barry Buzan David Campbell Albert Camus E. H. Carr Noam Chomsky Michael Cox Simon Dalby Charles Darwin Midge Decter Gilles Deleuze James Der Derian Jacques Derrida Rene Descartes Richard Devetak Michael Dillon Gary Dorrien Shadia Drury Tim Dunne Umberto Eco Jean Bethke Elshtain Friedrich Engels Cynthia Enloe Richard Falk Franz Fanon Jane Flax Michel Foucault Paulo Freire Milton Friedman Thomas Friedman Sigmund Freud Greg Fry Francis Fukuyama John Lewis Gaddis Frank Gaffney John Kenneth Galbraith Jim George Susan George Nathan Glazer Antonio Gramsci Hugo Grotius Mel Gurtov Jurgen Habermas Vaclav Havel Friedrich Hayek Friedrich Hegel Martin Heidegger Seymour Hersh Gertrude Himmelfarb Thomas Hobbes Eric Hobsbawm Sidney Hook Max Horkheimer Irving Howe David Hume Samuel Huntington G. John Ikenberry Takeshi Inoguchi Chalmers Johnson Donald Kagan Frederick Kagan Robert Kagan Mary Kaldor Immanuel Kant Robert Kaplan George Kennan Paul Kennedy Robert Keohane William Keylor John Maynard Keynes Charles Kindleberger Jeane Kirkpatrick Henry Kissinger Torbjorn Knutsen Stephen Krasner Friedrich Kratochwil Irving Kristol William Kristol Charles Kupchan Jacques Lacan Michael Ledeen Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin" Primo Levi Andrew Linklater John Locke Jean Francois Lyotard Niccolo Machiavelli Karl Mannheim Mao Zedong Martin Luther Herbert Marcuse Karl Marx John Mearsheimer John Stuart Mill Hans Morgenthau Daniel Patrick Moynihan Joshua Muravchik Sir Isaac Newton Reinhold Niebuhr Frederick Nietzsche Paul Nitze Joseph Nye Jacinta O'Hagan Plato Richard Perle Norman Podhoretz Karl Popper Sayyid Qutb Chris Reus-Smit Jean Jacques Rousseau Walt Rostow Bertrand Russell Edward Said Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Jan Aart Scholte Roger Scruton Michael Shapiro Adam Smith Steve Smith Baruch Spinoza Leo Strauss Sun Yatsen Richard Tarnas Thucydides J. Ann Tickner Alexis de Tocqueville Voltaire Diana Trilling Lionel Trilling Leon Trotsky John Vasquez Gore Vidal Paul Virilio RBJ Walker Immanuel Wallerstein Kenneth Waltz Michael Walzer Max Weber Nicholas Wheeler William Appleman Williams Woodrow Wilson Paul Wolfowitz Fareed Zakaria