A report on International relations

John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought.

While states remain the principal actors, greater attention is given to the forces above and below the states through levels of analysis or structure and agency debate.

He was one of the major twentieth-century figures in the study of international relations.

Robert Owen Keohane (born October 3, 1941) is an American academic working within the fields of International Relations and International Political Economy.

Kenneth Neal Waltz (June 8, 1924 – May 12, 2013 ) was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations.

International treaties, agreements, alliances, and other manifestations of international relations are usually the result of diplomatic negotiations and processes.

Polarity in international relations is any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system.

International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population, defined territory (see territorial disputes), one government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states.

Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation.

Although originally intended to describe short term management of a specific concern, these departments now manage all day-to-day and long-term international relations among states.