What are International Relations. IR analyse interactions among states, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multinational corporations, with a focus on understanding the dynamics that shape global politics, cooperation, and conflict. International relations examines how these entities interact across borders, the power structures that govern these interactions, and the political, economic, cultural, and social factors that influence global relations.
Subject that includes social, economic, cultural, power, enviroment and security issues.
IR has a lot of divisions and leading branches
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Politics is too important to be left to political scientists:
- it is not possible to adopt a naturalistic method to study IR for two main reasons: IR scholars always failed to predict major political events, and also there is no agreement among scholars about how international politics works. There is no consensus on a lot of political outcomes and issues;
- more may be better: importance of plurailsm in order to understand a situation from differents angles.