ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on few of the difficulties one face when studying international relations. Contemporary international law consolidates a system based on the supremacy of the State. General statements regarding epistemology, methodology, and the professional ethics of the scientist can be translated into concrete proposals for alternative thinking on the study of international relations. International relations students should be concerned with growing internal inequalities, because these most certainly are caused partly by the nature of external relations conducted by the countries concerned. The concept of human rights must be given a broader connotation to include all of the activities and students of international relations must provide answers to the crucial question of the implementation of such broadly defined rights. If the study of international relations deals with basic human needs, problems such as those of energy, natural resources, science and technology will become its main preoccupation.
