INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

International Relations is a study of foreign affairs encompassing global issues. It involves the International systems of states, governments (NGO’s and IGO’s), and also studies multinational corporations.

As a discipline, international relations is a vast field. It is sometimes considered as a part of political science, as it is much inclined towards foreign policy making, but as an academic discipline it is considered as a multidisciplinary field of study which includes: economics, history, international law, geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy.

The major areas studied in international relations are:

·         Globalization

·         Nationalism

·         State sovereignty

·         Nuclear proliferation

·         Economic development

·         Ecological sustainability

·         Global finance

·         Crime

·         Human security

·         Terrorism

·         Foreign interventionism

·         Human Rights

IR also studies the relationships among states as well as highlights the key players of this international system. Lately, international relations has widened its circle to study the establishment of League of Nations, World Wars, their causes and effects, the USA and USSR emergence, hazards of thermo-nuclear war, interdependence of states and applying scientific or researched based theories to International Relations.