From 1945 to date, the state has been at the centre of debates in IR theorizing. While the anti-statist theorists had
contested and are still contesting its centrality in IR theorizing, the unrepentant state-centric theorists even in the
era of technological globalization still consider it, the fulcrum of IR. This paper in a discursive cum historical
fashion, drawn mainly from secondary source, examined the nature of the debates in order to decipher its limit
or limitlessness in comtemporary IR theorising. The paper, after a careful diagnosis of the concept of the state as
well as undergoing the genealogical survey of state centrism in IR theorising, concludes that the state though is still the primary actor in IR but the empirical realities of the post WWII World have confirmed that it is no longer, what it used to be. Hence, it has limits in contemporary IR theorizing
