Reddit reviews International Relations: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

We condemn any violence that these people are causing, however, this hasn't erupted to the scale that is equal the force that Brazil is sending. And shows Brazil as a nation of cowards only willing to stamp on the faces of those less powerful than themselves to boost their national ego, rather than working to improve themselves and their national character.

Brazil may be fine with the use of excessive force, accusations of nations of being anti-democratic without proof, and disrupting both global and regional stability, but the rest of the international community likely isn't.

As such to avoid further Brazilian embarrassment we'd recommend the Brazilian government collectively read International Relations, a beginners guide

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If you really want to get into International Relations, the LKY School of Public Policy isn't very highly-regarded in the field. NTU's RSIS is far more respectable. Main reason is: Kishore Mahbubani of LKYSPP is a prolific huckster who spouts a lot of BS in order to drive sales of his own books.

And then there's the issue of your reason for wanting to pursue this Masters. You need to ask yourself on what you really want to get out of it, because admissions committees are going to pay a lot of attention to your reason for making them bother to read your application in the first place.

There's also the problem where you don't seem to know a lot about IR. If you don't, this beginner's guide is very effective at covering what undergrads usually go through in a semester-long Intro to IR course.

For more detailed reading, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics presents one of the dominant theories of International Relations and according to my very biased opinion, the one which represents what our global order moving towards in the next couple years.

Read those two at the very bare minimum, then you should have a fair idea if you're keen on this path. If reading those two makes you bored, then forget it, because you'll be reading a lot of this kind of material.