A system is a collection of units that is greater than the sum of its parts. What makes it greater than the sum of its parts is the interaction of the units. It was Kenneth Waltz who isolated the systemic level of international relations as the central object of study, thereby establishing IR as an autonomous field of inquiry within political science. H…
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