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Comment: Traditional approach and its significance.

  • UPSC 2003
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The traditional or classical approach was the dominant way of studying international politics until the behavioural turn of the 1950s. It reads interstate conduct through history, philosophy and law. Hedley Bull, its most forceful defender, described it in "International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach" (1966) as theorising that derives from these three disciplines…

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