international relations

noun

1. a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations.

Word History and Origins

Origin of international relations¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

"I think what Hamas has been trying to do is mobilise its forces, using its interior ministry forces, to assert and consolidate its control," Professor Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, told the BBC's Today Programme.

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Bronwen Maddox, director of the international relations think tank Chatham House told BBC Radio 4's Profile that Powell made the case that to achieve peace people had to talk to their enemies "even if they have blood on their hands".

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"Thirty nine percent tariffs: I was just shocked," says Jan Atteslander, director of international relations for the Swiss business federation Economiesuisse.

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A fluent English speaker, Liu joined China’s Communist Party and the Foreign Ministry in the 1980s, when he also spent time studying international relations at Oxford University.

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She initially wanted to be a lawyer, then she wanted to study international relations and then eventually she graduated in sociology.

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