The subject of the essence and nature of international relations' agents is an ontological and philosophical discussion which deals with the analysis of the identity of public relations' agents and attempts to answer the following questions: Who are agents of international relations? And what purposes and intentions do they have? And how do they perceive the world of international relations and themselves? The main purpose of the present research is to review these issues from the view of triplet approaches in international relations, that is to say, positivism (neorealism, neoliberalism, and neoclassical realism), moderate approaches (constructivism, critical theory, and English school of international relations theory), and post-structuralism (postmodernism). Indeed the main research question of the present study is: What is the perception of triplet approaches in international relations about the essence and nature of international relations' agents? The research method relies on a sort of comparative and qualitative study as it is attempted to reinforce the research hypothesis and perspective using some experimental evidence and logical arguments. The results showed that positivists have reflected a pre-social attitude while moderate approaches have offered a social and historical view, and poststructuralists have represented a mobile and pluralistic perception of the essence of the international agents.
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