The Contribution of European Studies to the Renewal of International Relations Theory

The fundamental historic events of 1989-19911 have affected International Relations theory in numerous ways. It is difficult to sum up such historic change and its fallout with a single theoretical approach, as the transition from bipolarity to a new stable world’s system begun in 1989 is still not finished and “theories” are often embroiled with “ideologies” – in the pejorative sense, as ways to justify particular interests and biased visions of the world.