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Explain the various facets of the idealist approach to the study of international relations. Comment on its contemporary relevance.

  • UPSC 2024, 2020
  • 10 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Idealism was the discipline's founding outlook after 1919: war is a remediable defect of institutions, and reason, law and organisation can transform international anarchy. Hedley Bull (1972) identified its hallmark as a belief in progress, that the states system can become fundamentally more peaceful and just.

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  • Facets of the approach
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