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Through studying international relations and politics at university, I hope to be able to understand the globally interdependent world in which we live. What are the causes of the current situation in international politics? How will the picture change in decades to come? What influences the main actors to operate in the way that they do? The scope of these debates fascinates me and I anticipate studying them at a higher level.
Part of why I want to study this subject is because it encompasses several different fields. EH Carr’s ‘Twenty Years Crisis’ linked ‘The Wealth of Nations’ to the harmony of interests doctrine and I found it interesting how models of inter-state relations have evolved in reaction to new ideas and world events. I have also read Robert Kagan’s essay ‘Paradise and Power’, on American-European relations in which he invoked philosophers Hobbes and Kant in order to compare the European rule and process approach to the more unilateral and power-based American style. The way theories from these centuries-old texts could be applied to governments in this decade interested me, so I later read Rousseau’s ‘Origin of Inequality’ and Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’. These have evoked an interest in conflicting theories on the best way for society and states to function and how theories such as liberalism and realism can be related to the way we are governed today. 我要提问
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