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This document discusses the scope and main approaches to international politics. It covers interactions between nation states and international organizations in the 20th century, especially during World War I and II and the Cold War in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. The main approaches analyzed are traditional analysis of international institutions and foreign policies; strategic analysis focused on nuclear deterrence; grand theories seeking patterns of behavior and concepts like balance of power; middle-range theories empirically exploring specific aspects of international politics and foreign policy; peace research on topics like war and violence; and interdisciplinary methods combining fields like history, political science, and newer fields. No single method can fully describe or replicate the reality of international politics.

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This document discusses the scope and main approaches to international politics. It covers interactions between nation states and international organizations in the 20th century, especially during World War I and II and the Cold War in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. The main approaches analyzed are traditional analysis of international institutions and foreign policies; strategic analysis focused on nuclear deterrence; grand theories seeking patterns of behavior and concepts like balance of power; middle-range theories empirically exploring specific aspects of international politics and foreign policy; peace research on topics like war and violence; and interdisciplinary methods combining fields like history, political science, and newer fields. No single method can fully describe or replicate the reality of international politics.

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This document discusses the scope and main approaches to international politics. It covers interactions between nation states and international organizations in the 20th century, especially during World War I and II and the Cold War in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. The main approaches analyzed are traditional analysis of international institutions and foreign policies; strategic analysis focused on nuclear deterrence; grand theories seeking patterns of behavior and concepts like balance of power; middle-range theories empirically exploring specific aspects of international politics and foreign policy; peace research on topics like war and violence; and interdisciplinary methods combining fields like history, political science, and newer fields. No single method can fully describe or replicate the reality of international politics.

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SCOPE OF

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
 Object: interactions of foreign policies and
the world organizations interests
 Actor: Nation States, International
Organizations
 Time Dimension: specially The 20th
Century (World War I & II, Cold War)
 Space Dimension: Europe, America, Mid-
East & Asia Pacific
THE MAIN APPROACHES
 Traditional Analysis
 The Strategist
 The Grand Theorist
 Middle-Range Theory
 Peace Research
 Interdisciplinary
1. TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS
 Description of International politics &
institution analysis, certain cases, and
some particular states foreign policies

- United Nations
- The Convention of The Law of the sea
- Narcotics
- International Police, etc
2. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
 Discovered since 1945, Post
World-War
 To Study the deterrence of
Nuclear weaponry, the impact of
nuclear weaponry, maximizing
national power to minimize the
possibility of nuclear war
3. GRAND THEORIES
 Generalization
 Pattern
of Behavior
 Power Motivation of Balance of
Power
Concepts: - Equilibrium
- World System
- Model of Communication
4. MIDDLE-RANGE THEORIES
 Empirical Exploration to certain
international politics & Foreign Policy
Aspects
- To seek a probability
- To Develop Prediction
5.PEACE MAKING STUDIES
 Topics Peace

War
 Object - Normative
 Techniques - Scientific, Systematic
 Subjects: Violence Escalation, The correlations
between Leader’s Personality and The Nation’s
Enemy, Military Budget, Public Opinions about
State and foreign cultures
6.INTERDISCIPLINARY
METHODS
 Old : History, Political Science, Geography
& Legal Studies
 New : Anthropology, Economy, Sociology
& Psychology

No method completely able to describe the


“reality” of international politics, even to its
replica

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