INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Critical Assessment Of The Claim That The Discipline Of International Relations Is Eurocentric

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Critical Assessment Of The Claim That The Discipline Of International Relations Is Eurocentric

Introduction

In this paper, we have to present an argument that the discipline of international relations is Eurocentric in nature. According to the Eurocentric perspective, the history of the West is designed as a coherent cultural ensemble in which ascending millennia represent a movement towards progress and reason. This process is characterized by the gradual and progressive development of human ability to control nature through the discovery of instrumental rationality.

The paper will present the argument if the international relations are Eurocentric in nature or not and the essay will focus on arguments for and against this claim. All European philosophers of the nineteenth century accept the hierarchical vision of the world and hierarchical cultures, distinguished between modern and pre modern, advanced and backward, and primitive and developed cultures. All European philosophers of the nineteenth century (Montesquieu, Hegel, Herder, Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Weber) accept the ontological distinction between the West and the rest of the world between. They present an essential and fundamental difference vision which is cemented at the time of the European industrial revolution, imperialism and colonisation.

This is when Europe begins to grow as other countries begin to be regarded as being still always before the Velocity of the European industrial revolution that other countries seem to remain completely stationary. Elsewhere, the empirical fact of European domination seemed to prove the thesis of the superiority of the West and its immeasurable distance from the Non-West culture.

Discussion

The global scale and radical changes in political, economic and spiritual aspects of life of the world community in the field of military security can expect to form a new system of international relations that is different from those that operate for ending the century, and in many respects from with classical Westphalian system.

In international and domestic literature, it has developed more or less sustainable approach to the systematisation of international relations on the basis of their content, participants, drivers and patterns. It is believed that the actual international (interstate) relations originated in the period of the formation of nation-states in a relatively amorphous space of the Roman Empire (Biswas 2007, 117).

The starting point is given for completion of "Thirty Years War" in Europe and the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Since then, the entire 350-year period of international cooperation to this day is considered by many, especially by Western scholars as a single story Westphalian system of international relations. Dominant actors of the system are sovereign states. The system is not the final arbiter, and countries are independent in internal politics within their national borders and the principle of equal sovereignty implies on non-interference in each other affairs. Over time, states have developed based on these principles, a set of rules governing international relations in international law (Biswas 2007, 117).

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