International Affairs is multi-disciplinary so it can be a challenging major but that is also what makes it interesting. There is a lot to learn in order to understand complex relationships between countries. Each country’s cultural differences are important to understand. Culture affects political and economic relationships. Successful communication is based on an understanding of a country’s history, traditions and language. Governments, multi-national corporations, nongovernmental organizations, people and their ideologies are main actors.
I’m learning about (a) global, (b) regional, and (c) domestic (local) issues. Three examples of knowledge needed to understand relationships between world stage actors are (a) how capital globalization ...