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Discuss the commonalities between the Marxist and Realist approach to the study of International Politics.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 10 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Realism (Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, 1948; Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, 1979) and Marxism (Karl Marx, Vladimir I. Lenin, Immanuel Wallerstein) sit at opposite poles: one state-centric, the other class-centric. Set beside liberalism, however, both offer a hard-headed, structural and conflict-centred reading of world politics.

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