RELATIONSHIP AND DIFFERENCES OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS


The terms are often used interchangeably. Some modern students particularly behviouralists hold that there ought to be a distinction in the usage. That the failure  of  practitioners of international  relations and diplomacy differentiate them has  led to a  semantic problem in the  study  of international affairs today. These students argue that international politics should deal with the politics of international community in a rather narrow sense, focusing on  diplomacy and the relations among states  and other political  units whereas international   relations (as  a matter of  semantics) should be transitional , that is, operating in or between many different countries without being board in a
particular one.

International relations is properly embracing  the totality of relations among people and groups in the world. Most scholars agree that the term international politics  is used primarily to describe official politic relations  between governments acting on behalf of their states.  But  international relations is broader and cannot be limited.  

Stanley Hoffmann has argued that international relations is concerned with the “actions and activities which  affect the external policies and the power of the basic units into which the world is divided”.  They include transitional  relationship,  political , non-political, official and unofficial,  formal and informal.

Other scholars also argue that international politics is  synonymous with international affairs and it embraces all kinds of relations among states-  economic, political, legal, etc. whether  private, public or official /unofficial. Therefore,  international  relations for international politics  has the tendency to exclude the non-political aspects of  relationship among nations.
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