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Examine major principles of State centric world views.

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

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A state-centric world view holds that world politics is what sovereign states do to one another, and that every other actor is derivative. Its image is the billiard-ball model popularised by Arnold Wolfers in Discord and Collaboration (1962): impermeable, self-contained units that collide mainly over security, their movements explained by mass and impact rather than…

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