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Comment: Role of Ideology in International Relations.

  • UPSC 1995
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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An ideology is a structured set of beliefs about how the world works and how it ought to work. In international relations the debate is whether ideology drives state behaviour or merely dresses it, supplying respectable language for interests already chosen. The record supports a middle position: ideology shapes long-run direction and the identification of…

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  • What ideology does
  • The realist view: ideology as disguise
  • The counter-view: ideology constitutes interest
  • After the Cold War: transformed, not ended
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion
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