Welcome to International Relations
In the world of the twenty-first century, the discipline of International Relations studies global politics and economics, security and military strategy, and national societies and cultures. It seeks to understand relationships within the international system and global community that made the modern world.
International Relations introduces you to issues of peace and war and why the international system always seems to lurch between order to disorder. In particular, we are interested in explaining how global trends have shaped, and continue to shape, Australia’s place in the world.
The discipline is committed to giving students the knowledge and skills to find employment in the public or private sectors, whether it is in a government department pursuing national interest, a company operating on the global stage, or a non-government organisation committed to a global cause.
International Relations specialises in the study of...
- foreign policy, diplomacy, war and other forms of military action, especially where Australia is involved
- political economy and other modes of interaction between the world’s nations, economies and peoples
- International Organisations, such as the United Nations
- the theories that seek to explain global trends
- Australia's place and role within the Asian region
- understanding societies, cultures and alternative systems of governance around the world, especially those countries that are of particular significance to Australia
- the impact on international relations of globalisation, the environment, human rights and the growing gap between the world’s rich and poor
- international political economy
- security studies
- Australian foreign policy
- energy security
- human rights
- international relations theory and history
- ethnic and religious nationalism
- Chinese and Asian political economy
- Asian politics
- African studies
- the Middle East
