International Relations includes many subject matters.
International relations -LRB- IR -RRB- or international affairs , depending on academic institution , is either a field of political science , an interdisciplinary academic field similar to global studies , or an entirely independent academic discipline in which students take a variety of internationally focused courses in social science and humanities disciplines .	political science	political science	interdisciplinary	interdisciplinarity	global studies	global studies	discipline	Discipline (academia)	social science	social science	humanities	humanities	academic	academic
