International Relations Issues

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They made me do the Punjab dance! No wonder I was the only Australian.

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| Party at our house tonight! | It’s my housemate’s birthday, you coming? | umm… | No Australians | I’ll be there |

Collective Security

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And who is responsible for trash anyway. Check this great passive-aggressive fridge note by a US dude in the UK for his international housemates.

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| But currently my house mates have taken most of the space in the fridge for their food | I think this is what they call ‘balance of power‘ | ah, so to maintain equilibrium between you all so if you were fight again, there is no assured winner | Exactly! but since they have taken so much space, i eat their food | I call this ‘collective security‘  |

Understanding International Relations

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Sometimes I wonder why I bother studying international relations if I can’t even understand my housemates…
If I was to relate learning from my housemates to IR, I guess I’d say it’d have to be the course on Human Security
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| …then tensions rise for no apparent reason | Sure, the economy is not the best right now, but this is a first world nation, and there is no particular threat to the security | perhaps there is some underlying rhetoric that you haven’t heard yet? |Well, maybe but there is an agreement between all the parties | So which International Relations course is this for anyway? | International Relations? I’m talking about my housemates |