International Relations’ Theories Realism vs. Liberalism
Introduction
Social humanitarian sciences focus on studying global political processes and the object of its research are social phenomena, which are defined as “international relations” in the world we know. International relations are comprised of many different categories, such as foreign policy, international politics or world politics. However, the central issue of international politics is the international relations. The term “international relations” has been first used by English philosopher J. Bentham at the end of 18th century. It is important to note that it is not accidentally that the term appeared at that particular time, as the border line of 18-19th centuries is marked by evolution of the international relations’ phenomenon. By the time the term emerged, most of the Europe has been divided into sovereign states, refusing monarchy, and thus, changing inter-monarchial relations to that of independent sovereign state to state interactions. World politics is the leading self-developing element of the international relations, though it does not cover the whole international relations structure; international economic relations are also part of the structure, based on the world economic relations and are an outside part of the structure. It is clear that interconnection between world politics and international relations is complicated and dynamic, though it is considered to be a young discipline, despite of the fact that it can be dated back a thousand years, as international relations are politics in its core nature.
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The needs for study international relations as a science came with the start of the World War I, as this war has taken such a scale, encompassing most of the world, and lead to unthinkable amount of deaths and destruction, that international community realized that there is more to the politics of 19th or earlier centuries, than already known. The World War I gave start to many scholars and political actors to start questioning
Social humanitarian sciences focus on studying global political processes and the object of its research are social phenomena, which are defined as “international relations” in the world we know. International relations are comprised of many different categories, such as foreign policy, international politics or world politics. However, the central issue of international politics is the international relations. The term “international relations” has been first used by English philosopher J. Bentham at the end of 18th century. It is important to note that it is not accidentally that the term appeared at that particular time, as the border line of 18-19th centuries is marked by evolution of the international relations’ phenomenon. By the time the term emerged, most of the Europe has been divided into sovereign states, refusing monarchy, and thus, changing inter-monarchial relations to that of independent sovereign state to state interactions. World politics is the leading self-developing element of the international relations, though it does not cover the whole international relations structure; international economic relations are also part of the structure, based on the world economic relations and are an outside part of the structure. It is clear that interconnection between world politics and international relations is complicated and dynamic, though it is considered to be a young discipline, despite of the fact that it can be dated back a thousand years, as international relations are politics in its core nature.
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The needs for study international relations as a science came with the start of the World War I, as this war has taken such a scale, encompassing most of the world, and lead to unthinkable amount of deaths and destruction, that international community realized that there is more to the politics of 19th or earlier centuries, than already known. The World War I gave start to many scholars and political actors to start questioning
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