IR & FP

Question 1

Differentiate between international relations and areign foreign policy

Answer 1

International relations: study of political interactions of states and other actors in the international arena
Foreign policy: a government’s strategy in dealing with other nations

Question 2

Between international relations and foreign policy, who has systematic analysis and who has analytical focus?

Answer 2

International relations has systematic analysis and foreign policy has analytical focus

Question 3

International relations has a systematic analysis, what does that mean?

Answer 3

In international relations, there is focus on how the international system affects the behaviour of nation states with the key variable being that the international system includes the power of each state.

Question 4

Foreign policy has a analytical focus. Why?

Answer 4

Has analytical focus because of its actor specific focus of focusing on other nation states.