The classical theory & in the context of international relations

In today 's world it is widely described in the modern globalised or internationalised. These descriptions of the core is a requirement of the historic change or even rupture. In a global context or in a globalising world is compared in the past in the international world, such as the modern world has been left in modernity. These claims of historical change is significant, that the ancient works of premodern, modern, or even consider, but certainly the international world still has an important role in international relations.

The three main uses of the classic texts of today 's international relations can be identified. First of all, the classical elements are often cited as the precursors of modern theoretical approaches: the realists to trace the roots of thinking back to Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau; The Liberals most prominently Kant; The English School of Grotius; Marxist approaches seem to mention Marx and Gramsci; Hegel and Nietzsche, as well as the important role of postmodernism.

Secondly, in order to explain the political development of the ancient works of art will be used and the reasons for, or even certain foreign policy. A good example is the Kant-academically and politically-influential use of explain the democratic peace and democracy and the data of the market economy, accompanied by legal and political to distinguish clearly the spread of modern world politics the Liberal