In the increasing interdependent
world, international relations is
essential for human survival and progress. It
reveals how men and nations are
likely to act in a given circumstance. It tells us conditions that should be
encouraged and conditions which should
be discouraged in order to promote
international harmony and well-being. It is
studied with a view to showing
that national interests are interpreted
by states alone and not by the
organized conscience of mankind. It
equally goes to demonstrate that
propaganda is likely to poison or aspire but it
can equally upset all expectations regarding
the actions of nations. States can
implement their policies in
countless ways-
economic political and cultural.
That the road to
world peace may not lead altogether
though the field of politics; that race,
history, language and culture may devise
wholly irrational but supremely
effective ties; that democracy and dictatorship can
both be constructive and destructive. The problems of poverty and
overpopulation are not to be solved by generalized description,, and that
technical assistance has its limitations s well as its promises. That without a minimum standard of tolerable existence for the world’s people, international cooperation even human survival will be constantly in
jeopardy.
We will learn
that war deferred is a kind of
peace nations will ever know. That the
road to a better order is filled with
obstacles and serious complexities. We will observe that prescribing cure for the ills of the world is somewhat difficult, but not impossible, we may be
shocked at the unwillingness of
the patient to take the cure. The study of
international relations is a not a science with which we solve the problems of
international life. At best, it is a
systematic and subjective approach to
those problems.