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In the US, international relations has traditionally been studied as a branch of political science. One effect has been that it has been strongly influenced by the fashions which dominated political science in that country at any one moment. We have already seen how the “behavioural approach”, which dominated most branches of the social sciences in the early postwar years in that country, also affected the study of international relations. Another movement which exercised a strong influence on all branches of the social sciences was the so-called “systems” approach.
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David Riesman, “Some Observations on the ‘Older’ and the ‘Newer’ Social Science”, in Leonard D. White (ed.), The State of the Social Sciences, Chicago, Ill., 1956, p. 338.
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Luard, E. (1992). The International System. In: Basic Texts in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22107-3_35
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