International Politics it's a term often interchanged with international relations, world politics or global politics that denotes the sum of all political interchange within the world at a given time. In its strictest sense, international politics is “The accumulation of all politics” (Duchacek, 1998) that emerges between the nations of the world.
In international politics, a state's claim to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory. Beginning in the late 1880s, European colonial powers undertook legal agreements consisting of promises not to interfere with each other's actions in mutually recognized spheres of power in Africa and Asia. After colonial expansion ceased, geopolitical rather than legal claims to spheres of influence became common, examples being the U.S. maintain to dominance in the Western Hemisphere under the much-earlier Monroe Doctrine and the Soviet Union's expansion of its sphere of influence to eastern Europe following World War II.
For all the discussion about the split between the United States and Europe over Iraq, the elementary issue is that the international political system is heading back into spheres of influence. The Western alliance is becoming history. This was bound to happen. We sometimes fail to remember that nature abhors a vacuum. Perhaps having a single superpower is a little bit like a vacuum – so many places to play policemen and not enough soldiers to go around. Now, we see the drift away from uni-polarity back to multi-polarity, with President Jacques Chirac of France, backed by Germany’s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and, to a lesser extent, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, leading the way to asserting Europe’s independence vis-à-vis the United States. We also see a more self-confident China, willing to defy the U.S. on Iraq and quietly asserting itself in Southeast Asia.
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