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Discuss the Systems Approach to the Study of International Relations.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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A system is a set of parts whose behaviour is intelligible only through their relations with one another. The systems approach, a product of the behavioural movement of the 1950s, shifted the study of international relations from the diplomatic narrative of single states to the configuration of states as a whole, asking what a given…

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