Connectivity and Exploitation in the Digital Age
Through participation in logistics and communications, digital or otherwise, each person has the potential to affect international relations – and the rules governing this space are still in the making.
Glossary of Key International Relations Terms
An extensive glossary of key terms central to IR and the study of global politics, taken from from the textbook ‘Understanding Global Politics’.
Covid-19’s Impact on Global Health
The gaps and divisions created by the Covid-19 pandemic have profoundly affected international relations because everything about the origins and spread of the novel coronavirus has been contentious.
Global Health
The idea of global health connects an individual’s private concern over their own well-being to the shared necessity to secure the health of everyone, everywhere.
International Security
Security is a contested concept that has occupied minds for thousands of years. The central debate is whether security should be about protecting the state or the individual – or both.
Poverty and Wealth
Poverty and wealth are often found side by side. They are two dimensions in our world that are interrelated because they affect each other and influence both the willingness and capacity of states to ensure a stable global system.
Migration and International Relations
Migration is caused by push factors (issues that would make one want to leave one’s home, such as hunger or war) and pull factors (elements that would attract one to a foreign state, such as safety or employment).
Transnational Terrorism
Terrorism and terrorists can be transnational in three ways: through their goals, their actions and their organisational form – each of which exposes the dark side of globalisation.
9/11 and the War on Terror
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 led to the United States starting its ‘War on Terror’, seeking to rid the world of terrorists and governments that supported or enabled them.
Gender, Sexuality and International Relations
Norms around gender and sexuality shape the roles we take on in society, our freedoms and rights and even whether we live or die.
