who define Political Science as state centric
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In the scientific study of politics there is still an antiquated disciplinary division between “political science” and “international relations”, or rather the separation of the study of domestic politics from the study of international politics. The point of view that still guides political research is the state-centric one.
This means that, for political science, state borders determine the boundaries of research. It is an approach that tends to concentrate research on single states isolated one from the other. On the contrary, International relations study the relations among states, understood as independent political entities, without dealing with the relations that exist between domestic politics and international politics.
However, the tendency to separate the study of the domestic sphere from the international one is not exclusive to politological disciplines. Other social sciences (history, economics, law, etc.) also divide the analysis of the social reality they study into two separate spheres. The historical sciences separate national history from world history. Economic sciences look at political economy and economic policy on the one hand and international economics and international economic policy on the other. The juridical sciences make a distinction between civil, penal, procedural and constitutional law on the one hand and international law on the other