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“Morton A. Kaplan’s system theory is contrary to the fundamental precepts of systems approach.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 15 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The systems approach entered political science with the behavioural revolution and its search for natural-science rigour. Morton A. Kaplan's System and Process in International Politics (1957) carried it into international relations. The statement holds that Kaplan borrowed the word "system" but discarded the logic that gives systems analysis its explanatory force.

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  • The precepts of the systems approach
  • Kaplan's construction
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