Question- How does the International Relation affects People’s Daily Life ?

Answer -

International relations touch our lives daily as global markets, the World Wide Web, and foreign travel stimulate a flood of people, products, and ideas across national borders.

We have been shaped by the immigration that brought us to our current homes, ennobled by our efforts to help others through foreign aid and humanitarian missions, enriched by our exposure to foreign foods, music, dress and language, and tantalized by the prospect of traveling, working, studying, and living abroad. While students of International Relations study the processes that promise such enormous benefits, they also confront those that threaten grave destruction. Fast flying, highly accurate nuclear weapons and simple acts of terrorism have breached the states’ ability to protect its citizens as never before. Resource depletion, disease and pollution recognize no national boundaries. Businesses face dangerous foreign competition as well as attractive foreign markets. The reality of an interdependent world is brought home to us every day as national economies respond to debt and instability elsewhere.

Both the problems and the prospects are beyond the ability of any one state, no matter how powerful, to address alone. Truly global problems - planetary warming, economic instability, refugee relief, ethnic violence, international debt, and nuclear proliferation - require cooperation and coordination not easy to sustain in a world of contrasting cultures, differing political systems and competitive nation states. Once, only a few cared to study these processes and their conflicting effects or to understand the special forces that surround efforts to shape the character of transactions that cross national borders. International Relations is no longer a remote abstraction that educated men and women can afford to ignore.

Today’s world is the product of diverse global forces that are historical, political, economic, military, and social in nature. These same forces will shape the world we inhabit in the future - and our knowledge of them will determine our place within that world. It follows that a systematic understanding of these forces, often summarized by the term “world politics”, must be interdisciplinary in approach. The mission of the Department of International Relations is to provide students with the opportunity to investigate these themes. Because the sovereign state is the principal agent in world politics, the study of International Relations emphasizes themes from political science, but students who major in IR will be exposed to knowledge from history, economics, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy as well. While IR courses address these areas, our majors are encouraged to take additional classes in these disciplines.

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