The presumption that international relations theory can help explain internal conflict is widely shared and accounts for the hubris of many who came late to the topic of domestic violence and civil war from the study of international politics. There has been some useful arbitrage with theories of interstate war providing insights into the causes of intrastate war. But the belief that internatio...

with the expression of the modernization theory as the dominant paradigmof development during the 1950s, approaches towards development were extracted from this paradigm. but with the birth of the attachment school ofthought, the modernization theory was scrutinized. for latin american countries  however,  the  attachment  school  of  thought  was  considered  amarxist ideology up until the end...

Offense-defense theory offers an optimistic view of international politics based on the argument that war can be prevented if defense gains an advantage over offense. It also argues that an effective arms control can reduce the risk of arms races and war. The theory has been useful in foreign policy analysis and in international relations scholarship since it is used to explain theoretical and ...