History of international relations

The history of international relations is an interesting course for studying in higher educational institutions, thanks to which you can get a lot of useful information. This discipline is compulsory at the faculties of the international economy, international economic relations, as well as management and law. In our time of universal globalization of production, it is very important to be able to establish contacts at the international level, since the ability to achieve this goal largely depends on it.

People throughout their history have interacted with each other, and not always this relationship was friendly. Numerous wars and conflicts often caused great sacrifices on the part of all the conflicting sides, however, for the winner, as a rule, these victims paid off with captured wealth and additional human resources. The history of international relations includes such stages as Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the New Time, on each of which power passed from one category of society to another.

In ancient times all the central power belonged to the king or pharaoh who ruled his country with the help of priests advisers. After the spread of Christianity, it was this religious trend that quickly became stronger, and eventually became a rigid centralized system of Western Catholicism, headed by the Pope. In the Middle Ages, despite the presence of kings and nobles, the real power belonged precisely to the church elite, which directed, in fact, all international affairs. The history of international relations has many examples, when it was the church that made the final decision in terms of the development of a medieval state. It should be noted that in the Middle Ages it conducted a rather aggressive policy, an example of which could serve as cruel crusades to the east, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Fortunately, already in the second half of the 17th century, the dogmatic ecclesiastical authority began to weaken, yielding its place to strengthened feudal lords, whose place in the future will be occupied by trading houses (banks). Gradually gaining strength and power, representatives of the capitalist elite in the late 19th century could radically influence the economic system of many countries, facilitating the establishment of international trade, and directly influencing foreign policy. As a result, today the history of international relations gives us many examples of interaction between individual subjects of such relations, and many of them can be adopted.

It is noteworthy that during the entire historical period of the development of countries and states, such interactions have changed and, in the end, general norms and rules have been worked out here. By the end of the 18th century in Europe, most of the states had come to the conclusion that such interrelations between countries should be based on the norms of law and mutual respect of each other. Today, the system history of international relations teaches us how to correctly conduct international negotiations and trade activities, as well as cooperation in the field of joint development of technical innovations. Thanks to the unification of norms and the reduction of everything to unified principles, embassies and consulates of all states can interact with each other on the basis of the law and guarantee of the inviolability of diplomats and their representatives.

Speaking of our country, the history of international relations and Russia 's foreign policy also includes the legacy of the USSR. All the former ties of the empire with foreign countries were preserved and today entered a phase of close cooperation with the leading states. Numerous meetings of diplomats and top party leaders with foreign missions once again prove the close cooperation of our country with highly developed countries, so I want to hope that we will someday come to a decent level of development and be able to be proud of our country.