APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATION
APROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Approach is a way of looking at and then explaining a particular phenomenon. The perspective may be broad enough to cover a vast area like World as a whole, or it may be very small embracing an aspect of local, regional, national or international politics. There are two main categories of approaches of international relations studies which include: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES AND MODERN APPROACHES Classical or Traditional Approaches of IR * Historical Approach: This Approach lays emphasis on certain permanent issues of international relations and politics like origins and characteristics of the state system, ideas underlying legal and diplomatic practices of the concert of Europe, balance of power and its relevance in the light of concrete achievements, causes of international conflicts and their cure etc. The historical approach is Id to have its own merit. It can help bring to light, to make more explicit. the assumptions of thought a...