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ОглавлениеUnit 1. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Unit 2. DIPLOMACY, NEGOTIATIONS AND BARGAINING Unit 5. WAR AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS Unit 6. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Для бесплатного чтения доступна только часть главы! Для чтения полной версии необходимо приобрести книгуUnit 1. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSSECTION 1WORDS AND TERMS TO BE REMEMBERED
Why Study International Relations? International relations is deeply relevant in our lives. Now this proposition may not be self-evident, and so, before we get about business of trying to understand international relations, it is only fair that we try to justify why we should study it in the first place. The study of international relations is relevant and important for many reasons. Indeed, an individual’s liberty, property, and job – even his or her life – may depend on events that occur in the relations between nations. War and regional conflicts continue to be an unfortunate but very real feature of modern international relations – a feature that promises to touch the lives of many young people, whether or not they recognize its relevance. For individuals who like to travel, international relations presents a host of challenges. Travel documents, visas, and passports must be obtained in order to leave one country and enter another legally. Foreign currencies must be converted into the local currency. In addition, travelers are exposed to the dangers of hijacking and terrorist attack. Prudent travelers learn the location of the nearest embassy or consulate, in case they run into difficulty in a foreign country. There is precious little that we discuss – whether it is the weather, the quality of the air we breathe, the price of a cup of tea, the sunburn we got over the weekend, or the stock market clash – that isn’t affected in some way by international relations. Weather reports are commonly collected by weather satellites that are governed by international treaties; pollution spills that do not stop at a nation’s borders cause international environmental and public health problems; a freeze in Brazil causes a hike in the price of coffee beans and in the cost of a cup of coffee in Akron; industrial pollutants deplete the global ozone layer, leading to a higher incidence of skin cancers. International relations is relevant to our daily lives, and we deny this fact only at great peril. The world is a big and complicated place. No one government or country can claim to control or dominate it. In fact, perceptions about the world, about who is responsible for its problems and about how its problems should be solved differ greatly from one country to another. The real causes of the nation’s changing position in world politics are multipolarity and interdependence. As a result of multipolarity, power in the global economy has increasingly spread among other countries. And as a consequence of the increased complexity of international interdependence, no one country has the potential to exercise decisive influence over the whole international system. Complexity derives from more actors, more issues, greater interactions, and less hierarchy in international system as a whole. Внимание! Авторские права на книгу "Английский язык для специалистов в области международных отношений. Учебное пособие" (Бочарова Е.П., Свиридюк Н.А., Тараненко О.И.) охраняются законодательством! |
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