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  2. International law - Wikipedia

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    International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey. In international relations, actors are simply the individuals and collective entities, such as states, international ...

  3. International relations - Wikipedia

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    Terminology. Depending on the academic institution, international relations or international affairs is either a subdiscipline of political science or a broader multidisciplinary field encompassing global politics, law, economics or world history. As a subdiscipline of political science, the focus of IR studies lies on political, diplomatic and ...

  4. Political science - Wikipedia

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    Political science is a social study concerning the allocation and transfer of power in decision making, the roles and systems of governance including governments and international organizations, political behaviour, and public policies. It measures the success of governance and specific policies by examining many factors, including stability ...

  5. International relations theory - Wikipedia

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    Political campaigning. Political parties. Politics portal. v. t. e. International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective. It seeks to explain behaviors and outcomes in international politics. The three most prominent schools of thought are realism, liberalism and constructivism. [ 1 ]

  6. Sources of international law - Wikipedia

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    Sources of international law. International law, also known as "law of nations", refers to the body of rules which regulate the conduct of sovereign states in their relations with one another. [1] Sources of international law include treaties, international customs, general widely recognized principles of law, the decisions of national and ...

  7. International order - Wikipedia

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    Michael Barnett defines an international order as "patterns of relating and acting" derived from and maintained by rules, institutions, law and norms. [4] International orders have both a material and social component. [4][5] Legitimacy (the generalized perception that actions are desirable, proper or appropriate) is essential to political ...

  8. Comparative politics - Wikipedia

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    Definition. Comparative politics is the systematic study and comparison of the diverse political systems in the world. It is comparative in searching to explain why different political systems have similarities or differences and how developmental changes came to be between them. It is systematic in that it looks for trends, patterns, and ...

  9. Political philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Political science, the scientific study of politics, is generally used in the singular, but in French and Spanish the plural (sciences politiques and ciencias políticas, respectively) is used, perhaps a reflection of the discipline's eclectic nature. [1] Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, [2] but it has also played a major part in ...