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How does Marxist approach explain contemporary International Relations?

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The Marxist approach explains international relations from beneath the state. What looks like a system of sovereign equals is, for it, the political surface of a single capitalist world economy, and war, alliance and aid are events inside that structure. It aims to interpret capitalism's whole history as a world system, and so to show…

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  • The lens
  • The mechanism: Wallerstein's world-economy
  • Dependency and hegemony
  • Applied to the present
  • Limits
  • Conclusion
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