It is both exciting and alarming to be a student of international affairs as the world is being turned upside down. In just two months, the second administration of President Donald J Trump has ...

Scholars tend to think of international relations as taking place in a world of anarchy -- a decentralized system in which sovereign states are the masters and rulers of their realm. But much of the ...

But in international affairs, there is no overarching government. With arrangements among states always subject to change, the world is, in a sense, “anarchic.” Anarchy is not the same as ...

This is what international relations theorists call the security dilemma. At best, such competition is a waste of resources; at worst, it actively makes war more likely.

Rather, in international relations, morality involves creating an order that prevents the anarchy and slaughter of great-power warfare.

Myanmar has become, by some estimates, the current center for global organized crime following the 2021 coup and now meets the definition of a failed state.

It talks about binary linguistic oppositions in international relations like order/anarchy, developed/underdeveloped, national/international etc, which perpetuate and seek to empower the masculine ...

International relations is a factor in nearly every policy issue. The field increasingly encompasses global issues such as the environment, world economy, human rights and disaster relief.