Many important events have happened in the international world in the last few decades. The incredible victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States elections, the killing of bin Laden, the war between Ukraine and Russia, and the Corona epidemic all fall into international relations.
In the current international situation, countries like China are emerging against the Western powers. A major change is being observed in the current international system. The modern international order may collapse. Students of international relations have long been taught to imagine a world composed of many sovereign states. They have been taught to take the lessons of the classical truth of the matter.
The current global contours of authority are highly complex. States themselves have empowered organizations to report on states’ treatment of refugees to international human rights organizations such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Native American groups were often part of larger confederations. such as the Iroquois League. It was made up of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations. In 1955, newly formed post-colonial independent states such as China, Egypt, and India met in Bandung, Indonesia to fight for the end of empires and the establishment of a new international order based on political, economic, and cultural equality.
Needless to say, the dominant events of the first half of the 20th century were World War I, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and World War II. And the hope that drove the creation of the United Nations in 1945 was that international cooperation and governance would protect human rights, stabilize the world economy, and prevent a return to hostilities.
Scholars of international relations have traditionally sought to answer this by emphasizing external relations between different sovereign states. These include war, trade negotiations, arms control, environmental agreements, etc. If international relations were only a matter of sovereign states, our subject would be very limited; Because today’s global sovereign state system fully emerged only through decolonization after 1945. The study of international relations directly confronts the fundamental political conditions of global social and biological life. It is the most interesting form of political science.