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international relations  

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  • The field of international relations (IR), narrowly defined, analyzes the interactions between nation-states. Yet actors other than nation-states are analyzed by scholars of IR: international organizations, terrorist organizations, multinational corporations, and transnational movements are all explored within the field. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; International Relations]

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