Government 132 is George Mason's introduction to international relations&endash;or IR for short. As such, it covers issues that transcend national boundaries. Until recently, we really only considered the political links among sovereign states such as the US, Britain, Russia, India, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Panama, Pakistan, or Peru. Over the last twenty to thirty years, however, we have to expand the scope of courses like this to include economic, environmental, and cultural issues plus international bodies, nongovernmental organizations, and multinational corporations to the questions of war and peace among governments.
That's another way of saying that we live in times of tremendous change. Since the end of the Cold War if not before, most of our traditional explanations, assumptions, and prescriptions for international relations have been brought into question. That makes studying international relations today extremely exciting, but it can also make it quite frustrating since no two observers agree on much of anything, including the issues we should be concentrating on.
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