Integration: A Means to Transcend the Westphalian Order and Go Beyond Geopolitics

The first chapter showed that IR theory, as an area of interdisciplinary research, is not complete unless the social, economic and environmental dimensions of this field of study are taken into account. The two great paradigms were appropriated to explain historical events of the political and military subsystems, but unappropriated for the explanation of phenomena and situations that are part of the socio-economic and ecological international subsystems.