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International Relations

This category lists informational websites about International Relations, a discipline of political science examining the relations between states at the international level. General resources, specific articles and books are listed here. Journals and other publications about international relations are not. Foreign language sites are listed under the appropriate categories in World/

Please submit only scholarly sites that relate strictly to the field of international relations (see category description for more details).

Political, personal, or other sites oriented to non-professionals almost invariably belong in a subcategory of Society/Issues or Society/Politics.

Foreign Policy sites may be appropriate to Science/Social Sciences/Political Science/Foreign Policy or Society/Government/Multilateral.

International Law resources should be submitted to Society/Law/Legal Information/International Law.

Bear in mind that urls that relate to Games/Board Games: D/Diplomacy,

Theory

The main schools of IR theory are liberalism (or idealism) whose adherents believe that international systems can be developed to preserve peace and ensure cooperation and realism whose adherents believe that the world is in a state of "international anarchy" requiring states to pursue and aggressive, self-interested foreign policy.