Intro To IR Presentation
Intro To IR Presentation
BY:
AISHATH SASHA FAZLOON (0370361)
HIROTO AMANO (0370583)
INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
Helps us understand the complexities Fosters greater cooperation among states and non-
of global issues such as climate state actors, leading to better outcomes in areas
change, terrorism, pandemics, and such as trade, human rights, and sustainable
economics. development.
Later, Graduate Institute of International Studies was followed in 1946 by the United Nations University for
founded in 1927.The focus here was on the study of research on international security, and
international law.
The League of Nations was established in 1920 to maintain peace and prevent conflicts.
The League failed due to the U.S. non-participation and lack of enforcement mechanisms.
Focus shifted to analyzing state behavior and the role of international institutions.
POST WORLD WAR 2
The role of international organizations and multilateral cooperation, such as the UN and
Bretton Woods system, gained emphasis.
Trade friction, aid, and sanctions in economic policy became key areas of study.
COLD WAR
THE DOMINANCE OF THE DOMINANCE OF
BIPOLARITY REALISM
The DOminance of Bipolarity (US and Soviet Union as Modern realism: began as a reaction to the
the only superpowers during the Cold War) breakdown of post WW1 international order in the
Some realist scholars such as John Mearsheimer 1930’s; the collapse of great-power cooperation after
suggest that Bipolarity ended with the Soviet Union’s WW2 helped establish realism as the dominant
political and military retreat from Eastern Europe. approach to the theory and practice International
Others attribute biploarity’s end to the breakup of the Politics in the US. During the Cold War, efforts to
Soviet Union as a State. (Lebow, 1994) displace realism from its dominant position were
repeatedly thwarted by the continued silence of the
U.S-Soviet antagonism: although indirect, the
connection between events and theory was
undeniable. (Wohlforth, W. C., 1994)
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