Relevance of international relations

Your task for this assessment is to write an answer to the following question:
 ‘We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not”’ (Blair, 1999).
What is the relevance of international relations for thinking about politics
today?
For this assessment, you are being asked to reflect on what an international
approach adds to the study of politics. You need to support your answer with
evidence from the academic literature. Remember you need to provide
references for all of your sources of information.
This assignment is designed to assess your ability to:
1. Show understanding of core political ideas (learning outcome one)
2. Demonstrate the capacity to form a political argument (learning outcome
four)
3. Understand and apply academic conventions relating to writing,
referencing and critical analysis (learning outcome five)