International Politics Meaning Nature and Scope
International Politics Meaning Nature and Scope
International Politics Meaning Nature and Scope
Gonda Yumitro
• International Politics as an academic discipline is
of a recent origin. This discipline is so new that it
can be called as the ‘youngest of all the social
sciences’. It is dynamic in nature. In the present
time, the need to tackle environmental problems,
growing international terrorism, violation of
Human Rights, Nuclear nonproliferation, unjust
economic order, negative impacts of globalization
as well as the necessacity for reconstructing or
reforming UN, IMF,WTO, International power
structure. etc has been keeping the discipline on
an development path
• According to H.J. Morgenthau “International Politics
include analysis of political relations and problems
of peace among nations. Further he writes, It “is
struggle for and use of power among nations.”
According to Charles Schleicher “ All inter state
relations are included in international politics,
through all the inter -state relations are not political.”
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NATIONAL POLITICS
AND INTERNATIONALPOLITICS