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Ideas of men come and go throughout history. When men come together and relate to one another, these ideas combine and form a universal cohesion that helps further international societies. The study of International Politics and/or International Relations helps us study these trends, and hopefully, predict the behavior and the ideas in an international scope. International Relations is a complex science, and its history gives us background in the field in context. The explanation of political leaders from all over the world is what we are looking for: why did they do this, why did they do that? International Relations help us answer these fundamental questions. Everyone has a different view point. Everyone looks at foreign policy differently; everyone looks at society in a different light. We study different philosophies that make up International Relations; we call them paradigms, or fundamental assumptions that refer to the core of the discipline we are studying, in this ca