International Relations and Comparative politics Research 2022

Running head: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS 1
International Relations and Comparative politics
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS 2
International Relations and Comparative politics
The first topic of interest in research involves international relations. The contact between
nations, states, and organizations without putting aside political parties is what is known as
International relations (Baylis, Owens, & Smith, 2017). International relations cover a number of
critical issues including economy, political arena, human rights and also poverty. This clearly
explains the importance of Internal Relations in solving problems facing most of the countries
globally. Even though International Relations and Comparative Politics go hand in hand,
Comparative Politics is defined as the study about politics in relation to their institutions and also
their systems. Furthermore, comparative politics covers matters dealing with conflicts.
Due to the fact that international relations cover critical issues globally, it has a lot of
significance in today’s world (Mingst, McKibben, & Arreguin-Toft, 2018). A more defined
example involves diplomacy within third world countries or developing countries like the recent
xenophobia case in South Africa. It is important to know the new relationship level of South
Africa and Nigeria after all the recent xenophobic attacks because the attacks are social issues
that have affected how the two countries relate. One has to bear in mind the fact that Nigeria had
to close the South African embassy. Closing an embassy of a foreign country in one’s country
means that diplomacy and international relations between the two parties are affected so this
definitely affects the economy of both countries because South Africa has huge companies in
Nigeria which benefits both the South African and Nigerian governments. Apart from peace
promotion, it plays a major role towards the growth of the economy between many nations as it
encourages effective policies on trade covering the importation of goods and also raw material to
the countries where they are not available. In addition to that, it has been able to counter poverty
growth rate through the encouragement of international trade. Equally important, is the issue of