Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Shahid Beheshti University and Professor at Carleton University, Canada
Abstract
Globalization, no matter how it is defined, has definitely caused developments requiring further investigation. These developments may have significant repercussions for the Humanities and Social Sciences. This article seeks to analyze the relation between globalization, on the one hand, and the discipline of International Relations (IR), on the other. The main question we try to answer in the article is as follows: what are the major interactions between globalization studies and the discipline of International Relations and how these have been conceptualized. We argue that IR has been greatly affected by the globalization studies in recent decades. IR’s major concepts have been redefined and its main theories revisited.
