Key Concepts in International Relations

International Relations

International Relations is an interdisciplinary study and the exploration of relationships between states and possibly non-state actors and their interactions between each other. This involves economic foreign and military policy.

State

a state can be defined as something in which has its own control over domestic and foreign policy and its own Independence meaning there is no world authority or government that control it. usually has a Constitution.

Realism

political ideology that states will always compete for power and its own survival as human nature is selfish

Anarchy

When the state has no world all powerful government, governing body and there is no an all powerful influence over a states foreign affairs and governance

What is a Concept?

A concept is an image made in the human mind which allows us to to generate knowledge about the world by organizing, naming and giving meaning to its features

What are the three Aims of a Concept?

1. it must display multiple meanings of concepts, in historical, theoretical and cultural methods, in an attempt to keep students open to contentedness and meanings of creation

2. it keeps students analytical and aware of the practical consequences of using an concepts one way over another, by highlighting the role of scholarly research and political decision making.

3. demonstrating how to unpack multiple concepts will allow difference approaches to concept analysis and investigating global politics

what are the two structures of a basic concept?

Temporal and Socio-Politcial

what is a Socio-Politcial structure?

the shape of how global actors act through the Social- Culture norms and classes and the Political- Power distribution, authority and governance

What is the temporal structure in concepts?