How to Use international relations in a Sentence

international relations

noun
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  • This applies to elections and the rule of law, as well as international relations and trade.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The United States has been central to establishing a new kind of international relations since 1945, one that has grown in strength and depth over the decades.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Melisa Onel found that her international relations degree did not open many career paths and turned to the arts instead.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Oct. 2022
  • As with any problem in international relations, carrots and sticks are all the U.S has.
    — WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • What does this move signal to the world about international relations with North Korea?
    — WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Now a senior in high school, the Maryland native needs to decide where to study public and international relations.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Such are the questions shaping international relations at the time of Covid-19, as countries deal with the hottest new diplomatic tool: Covid-19 vaccines.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2021
  • But international relations are only part of the story for these Games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The free world has come to learn that, just like Putin, General Secretary Xi is not to be trusted–and trust is the foundation of all business and international relations.
    — Keith Krach, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Cook, an economics and international relations professor at Michigan State, will be the first Black woman to serve on the board.
    — Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • But the expansion of engagement in international relations from the elites to the masses has deeper and more predictable causes.
    — Rohan Mukherjee, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In the long term, defense experts warn that having a nuclear weapon positioned in space could pose a threat to life on Earth by eroding international relations and space law.
    — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Keeping a tighter leash on the wolf warriors may not spell better international relations for China.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • Bassem Naim, head of Hamas’s international relations office, said conditions in Gaza won’t improve in the long term unless the world is willing to deal with Hamas directly.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • So a full frontal assault on the very basis of international relations - the sovereign equality of states.
    — NBC News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Few of those situations reach as deeply into international relations and human rights as Simon has in the Peng case.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But the same history tells us that episodes like these can still have outsize effects on international relations at a time of rising global tension.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • As in much of the world, Old and New, the fate of winegrowing, making and marketing in South Africa through the centuries was tied to colonization, international relations, wars and politics.
    — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2021
  • As seen in the sanctions against Russia, fossil fuels are no longer bullet-proof shields in international relations.
    — Simon Maghakyan, Time, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The conflict has also laid bare the weakness of the European Union and its failure as a foreign policy force in international relations.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The idealism was the attempt to trade and cooperate with Russia in the hope of bringing Moscow into the sphere of normal international relations.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 18 May 2022
  • Her family settled in Denver, where her father worked as a dean of the school of international relations at the University of Denver.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Your story is about a modest family in Britain, with no role in international relations.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Because people that don’t care about space exploration, some of those people care a lot about international relations.
    — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • That us-against-them bipolarity became the structure of both international relations and our sense of ourselves.
    — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Still, in the cutthroat world of international relations, even the intangible is difficult to share.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Her campaign has helped put the argument for reparations back on the agenda of international relations.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Learning more about that conflict led her to study international relations at college in Stockholm.
    — Naina Bajekal, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Some of you might even find yourselves involved with long-distance travel, international relations or business or immigration.
    — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 9 June 2024
  • Public awareness of submarine cables has grown as a result — and these networks of cables are becoming a new source of strain in international relations, amid heating geopolitical engagements between the U.S. and China.
    — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 16 July 2024

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