IR Theory

International Relations Theory



International Relations Theory

Introduction

The theory of International relations is defined as the learning of international relations from a speculative perspective. The International Relations theory tries to offer an intangible structure upon which the international relations can be scrutinized. Most scholars explain the International Relations theories act as a duo of coloured shades, permitting the wearer to glimpse only the prominent events that are pertinent to the theory.

A supporter of realism can fully ignore an event that a constructivist might swoop upon as vital and vice versa. The three most popular theories if International Relations are constructivism, liberalism and realism.

IR is the short name for the educational subject of International Relations. The chief basis why IR should be studied is the reality that the complete populace of the world is alienated into independent states, or separate political communities, which intensely influence the way people are living.

A state can be defined as an obvious and surrounded region with an enduring population, under the authority of supreme government that is constitutionally sovereign of all the foreign governments i.e. a sovereign state. Mutually those states structure an international state system that is international in amount.

At current, there are approximately two hundred independent states, with a small number of exemptions. Everyone on this planet not only subsists in one of those countries but is also a resident of one of them and very seldom twice. Almost every individual, family and children on the earth are linked to a certain state (Jackson, & Sorensen, 2007, pp. 2).

Discussion

Decolonisation

In a broad sense the concept of decolonisation refers to access to the independence of peoples and territories under political domination, social and economic by foreign powers. From this perspective, it is impossible to speak of a plurality of decolonisation processes. The American undertaken the decolonisation between 1783 and 1900 and emerged as a result of which the U.S. political realities.

The Latin American republics also operated decolonisation between 1920 and 1945 in relation to dependency of the Ottoman Empire. The largely independent states of the Middle East and the Maghreb also decolonised between the 1945 and 1970 period. Following this are the entire African continent and important areas of Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean, all are divided into independent political units, and free from foreign domination (Strauss, et al. 2007).

Strictly speaking, however, the concept of decolonization evokes latter exclusively historical process whose climax is 1960. Under that process, virtually the entire African continent and substantial areas of the Pacific, Caribbean and Southeast Asia have attained independence, through developing their corresponding state structures.

The affirmation and development of the process often referred to as the “Great Decolonization” - a confluence of elements that explain and promote its development and completion (Eckel, 2010). First, it should be noted the crisis of imperialism conceived as a historical phase that had assumed at the time the competition among European powers for territorial control.

The deep crisis that affected the European metropolitan powers results of successive world ...