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Examine the post- modernist critique of Realism in international politics.

  • UPSC 2010
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Postmodernism entered International Relations in the 1980s, during the third debate (the fourth on Ole Wæver's count), as a challenge to the positivist claim that theory can describe the world from nowhere. Where realism claims to report the permanent facts of power and anarchy, postmodernists ask who decided that this account counts as knowledge, and…

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