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Explain the uses of systems approach in international relations and examine the relevance of Kaplan’s system analysis.

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The systems approach entered international relations with the behavioural turn of the 1950s. Borrowing from Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and David Easton's model of the political system, it treats international politics as a whole of interacting units whose recurrent behaviour is explained by the structure of that whole rather than by the biography…

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  • Uses of the systems approach
  • Kaplan's system analysis
  • How relevant is Kaplan today?
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