CEVAP:

Theories in international relations are frameworks of analysis, sets of concepts that
supplement understanding of what is going on, and why, between nations and states when they deal with each other.

• They attempt to explain interstate and international transactions.
• Theories also permit the examination of what is going on in world politics (international affairs), and allow us to compare one event to another.
• Part of a theory’s value (and, as a result, its popularity) lies in its ability to explain many cases, so that understanding is potentially clearer about the “what, where, how and why.”
• Sometimes theories are also used to analyze the impact of certain political or economic choices.
• Certain theories have become so well known and popular that they are accepted as paradigms.