International Studies

International studies, the study of collective interactions between the various bodies involved in the international community. It extensively delves into the relationship between countries while emphasizing the roles played by states, inter-governmental organizations, international non-governmental organizations like Doctors without Borders, multi-national corporations and the like. International relations come under the area of political science in social studies as its main concentration lies on interaction between the political fraternities.

The brain child of International Relations exists for centuries, but it was officially implemented according to scholars only during the 15^th century with the establishment of the Dutch East India Company. Conglomerating the countries spread across the world which is diverse is such a complex task and professionals of the field usually split their area of expertise based on their language along with style of etiquette dealing particular country.

Commonly it is referred to as ‘foreign relations’ which mainly deals with field experts guiding multi-national companies in expanding their horizon overseas, staffing diplomatic agencies abroad, assist governmental bodies in establishing diplomacy in foreign land, providing service to non-governmental charitable organizations to establish their mission among others. In short, specialists trained professionally in academic area are the forerunners of International Relations and play a ubiquitous role in bridging international contact.

In academia, International relations are linked to diverse fields from economics, history, philosophy to anthropology, gender studies, culturology among others. Issues covered by, and under the concept of IR include a vast area of purpose like globalization, nationalism, economic development, global finance, human rights and much more. Students looking forward to study the underlying base of International studies, its purpose, application and theory practice are driven by current global situation that had underwent drastic changes compared to the days when IR was initiated by countries.

Apart from the academic studies, the topic now is inclined to cover other related issues such a fighting poverty, motives against global terrorism, overcoming international hostility, economic depression and the related. Such modern day topics have been included to the already complex International Studies but it is the non-deviated attention to details that will help the learner grasp the foreign relations concept from a different angle to find a definitive solution. A well trained specialist comes from international studying of cultures and etiquettes which are imparted by educational institutions in collaboration with foreign universities for comprehensive knowledge on different countries besides helping to learn the art of negotiation.

Questions:

• How do international relations affect the country's progress?
• How can we correlate international relations with other field of interests?