What does international relations entail if it is your major in college?

silverbookslayer: What does international realtions entail if it is your major in college?
1. what is international realtions?
2. WHat do you study?
3. What kind of jobs can you get?
4. what are the requirements?

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Answer by wilma m
1. Relations with your country with other countries.
2. The Study of International Laws and other law subjects like political laws to know other nations government and others relative to international relations or foreign policies.
3. Preparation as ambassador, diplomats, etc.
4. extra intelligence, good moral character.

Answer by ElRushbo The Man Who Ate The GOP
1: IR = how and why and in what ways different countries deal with each other.

#2: International Law; International Trade and Transportation; World History (Ancient, Modern, Contemporary); one or more foreign languages; Comparative Religions; Money – and – Banking; Geography; Macro- and Micro-Economics; GeoPolitics, etc.

#3: International banking; International stockbrokerage; International currency exchange; State Department; teacher; International lawyer/ Maritime Lawyer AFTER obtaining relevant law degree;
International businessman;salesman, etc

$ 4: Requirements? To get into a school that teaches International Relations?
What you need are good… no, EXCELLENT grades in high school.

Schools to consider: Georgetown; Stanford; Columbia; American; Johns Hopkins; Harvard; George Washington.

Notice that 3 of those schools (Georgetown, American, George Washington) are IN Washington DC and one is nearby (Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore).