Open AccessPoverty and International Relations Theory
Author(s) -
Laura Kelly
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1583-3984
pISSN - 2414-6633
DOI - 10.22151/politikon.10.2
Subject(s) - poverty , misrepresentation , ideology , modernization theory , ignorance , economics , order (exchange) , culture of poverty , state (computer science) , power (physics) , realism , basic needs , development economics , international relations theory , economic system , political economy , neoclassical economics , positive economics , sociology , law and economics , political science , international relations , economic growth , law , politics , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , finance , algorithm , physics , quantum mechanics
World Poverty. Why has this problem persisted through years of unprecedented economic growth throughout most of the world? This paper proposes that the problem is theoretical. The main theories, such as Realism and Modernization rely on fundamental assumptions such as international order through the maintenance of state power, or free market ideology, which serve to exacerbate, rather than solve, the problem of poverty. The result is either the misrepresentation of poverty, or the blatant ignorance of its existence by these dominant theories.