World Order - International Relations

International Relations

• The international system, which includes:
  • International relations (IR), or International studies (IS), the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system
  • International law, implicit and explicit agreements that bind together sovereign states
  • United Nations (UN), an international organization to facilitate international cooperation
  • World Trade Organization (WTO), an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade
  • World Bank, an international financial institution
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization that oversees the global financial system
  • International organization, an organization with an international membership, scope, or presence
  • Non-governmental organization (NGO), a legally constituted, non-governmental organization with no participation or representation of any government
• New world order (politics), a post–Cold War political concept promulgated by Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush
• World government, the notion of a single common political authority for all of humanity
• World-system within the world-systems theory, a socioeconomic theory associated with thinkers such as Andre Gunder Frank and Immanuel Wallerstein
• Neorealism in international relations, or structural realism, a theory of international relations, which includes:
  • Hegemonic stability theory (HST), a theory that the international system is more likely to remain stable when a single nation-state is the dominant world power
  • Power (international), state power, including economic and military power
  • Anarchy in international relations, a concept in international relations theory holding that the world system is leaderless