Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Culture and globalization related to international relations

  • Author:
  • Aritra Ghosh, Rimi Sarkar
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 11 to 20

*UGC Project Fellow & Ph.D. Scholar, University of Kalyani, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

**Research Scholar, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India

Online published on 21 March, 2013.

Abstract

International relations (IR) occasionally referred to as an international study is the study of relationships between countries. It is often considered a branch of political science especially after 1988 UNESCO classification, but an important sector of academic circles prefer to treat it as an interdisciplinary field of study. Culture is likely to be important in influencing values, world-views, and the structure of human relationships. culture can affect attitudes and social relations has already been verified in a wide range of areas, including varying patterns of individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, power distance and cultural complexity. Culture influences the decisions of leaders and restricts government action through popular pressure. Culture is certainly an important element which affects foreign policy. However, at a deeper level, we can also argue that international relations in its broadest sense are itself the product of the interaction of different cultures. In this sense, an international affair is also an intellectual and cultural phenomenon. Globalization and international relations have continuously altered culture both positively and negatively. Globalization links cultures and international relations on a variety of levels; economics, politically, socially, etc. Understanding culture, globalization, and international relations is critical for the future of not only governments, people, and businesses, but for the survival of the human race. Culture is considered the full range of learned human behavior patterns (Human Culture). This paper show that by multi-disciplinary approach how culture, globalization and international relations are becoming increasingly interdependent of each other.

Keywords

Culture, Cultural diversity, National Culture, Internationalism, Cultural Internationalism, Globalization and International Relations