Week-1-2: Introduction and Development of IR as a separate Discipline
International relations, on a traditional account, can be identified as actual relations between and among states. However, with the advancement of human civilization and the development of states, international relations gained a great significance in human lives and became an essential aspect for the survival of individuals and states. Although in the beginning of human history, international relations were limited only to a field of activity, it gradually developed into an academic discipline gaining worldwide recognition.
Although international relations as a traditional feature of mankind is as old as the state itself yet its study as an autonomous discipline is of comparatively recent origin. This discipline is so new that in can be called as the youngest of all social sciences. As a separate subject and as an endeavor to an analyze the content and nature of inter state cooperation and conflict coercion and persuasion.
