World Association of International Studies
The current tendency is to reduce international studies to economics and political science (which until recently played the leading role), reflecting the common belief of capitalists and Marxists that economics and its universal laws are decisive. Recent history has shown that peoples are prone to destructive violence which can wreck their economic interests. Religion and ethnicity are of paramount importance in much of the world. It is for this reason that our fellowship strives to represent the whole rainbow of disciplines. Each one is a focus for theoretical debates, as is the study of international relations itself. Such intellectual exercise can become divorced from reality, and thus doctrinaire and dangerous.
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