discuss whether or not history and international political thought, on the one h

discuss whether or not history and international political thought, on the one hand, help us understand the current state of affair of international relations, or if the current state affairs of the discipline, on the other hand, is unrelated to those historical developments and, instead, the evolution of the discipline and its current state are dependent prominently on the political events and new philosophical insights in the last century–from the end of the Great War or WWI (1914 – 1918), the interwar period (1919 – 1939), Second World War (1939 – 1945), the Cold War (1947 – 1992), the Unipolar Moment (1992 – 2005), and the re-rising of China and Russia and the ensuing great power rivalry from 2005 to the present.