relationships among the world’s state governments and the connection of those relationships with other actors (eg: UN, MNC, individuals), with other social relationships (eg: economics, culture, domestic politics) and with geographic and historical influences 

subfield of IR that focuses on questions of war and peace

study of the politics of trade, monetary and other economic relations among nations and their connection to other transnational forces

inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that exercises its sovereignty 

set of relationships among the world’s states, structured by certain rules and patterns of interaction

states whose populations share a sense of national identity, usually including a language and culture

actors operation below state level and across state borders 

transnational groups or entities (Eg: catholic church, Greenpeace, International Olympic Committee) that interact with states, multinational corporations and other NGOS and intergovernmental organizations (IGO)

Non-state groups that organize transnationally, usually to protest around an issue or event (eg: environment, peace, women’s issues, human rights and globalization)

organizations (eg: UN and its sgencies), whose members are state governments

disparity in resources (income, wealth, power) between the industrialized relatively rich countries of the West (and former communist bloc) and poorer countries in Africa, the Middle East and much of Asia and Latin America