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Is Realist Approach the best method to understand International Relations? Examine this in the context of Classical Realism.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Classical realism, running from Thucydides and Niccolò Machiavelli to E. H. Carr (The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1939), Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans J. Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations, 1948), roots international conflict in human nature. Because people seek power and no authority stands above sovereign states, politics among nations becomes a struggle for power. Whether this makes…

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  • The classical realist method
  • Why it remains indispensable
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