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Studies in the field of International Relations (IR) are taken into account by dividing the discipline into two or three schools. For example, it can be divided into three categories such as “traditional theories, global society theories and neo-Marxist theories” as Holsti accepted in his famous book “Dividing Discipline”, or it can be named differently such as “realism, pluralism and globalism” (Viotti and Kauppi, 1993). Barry Buzan identified the theories of international relations as “conservatism, liberalism and radicalism”. Indeed, realism, liberalism and Marxism are the fundamental divisions which are very common in different studies. On the other hand, Shimko used the basic division of realism and liberalism and further elaborated it with the division as Machiavellianism, Grotianism and Kantianism (Shimko, 1992: 283-84; Little, 1996: 68-69; Buzan, 1996: 55; Zacher and Matthew, 1995: 107; Smith, 1997: 12). There are some other categorizations which are not mentioned above, such as realist approach, rationalist approach and revolutionary/ cosmopolitan approach (Hedley Bull, 1993).