Английский язык для специалистов в области международных отношений

МИНИСТЕРСТВО НАУКИ И ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ 
РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ 
 
РОСТОВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ 
ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ (РИНХ) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
И.Ф. Кисель, М.А. Хатламаджиян 
 
 
АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК  
ДЛЯ СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ 
В ОБЛАСТИ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ 
 
 
Учебное пособие 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ростов-на-Дону 
Издательско-полиграфический комплекс РГЭУ (РИНХ) 
2023 

УДК 811.111(075) 
ББК 81.432.1 
К44 
Авторы: 
И.Ф. Кисель, к.ф.н., доцент кафедры иностранных языков  
для экономических специальностей; 
М.А. Хатламаджиян, к.ф.н., доцент кафедры иностранных языков  
для экономических специальностей. 
 
Кисель, И.Ф. 
К44  Английский язык для специалистов в области международных отношений : учебное пособие / И.Ф. Кисель, 
М.А. Хатламаджиян. – Ростов-на-Дону : Издательско-полиграфический комплекс Рост. гос. экон. ун-та (РИНХ), 2023. –  
80 с. 
ISBN 978-5-7972-3151-6 
 
 
В учебном пособии широко представлен аутентичный материал, 
направленный на формирование лексической составляющей языковой 
компетенции при обучении английскому языку, а также способности к 
межкультурному общению в области дипломатии и политики. Система 
лексических упражнений и заданий по работе с текстами направлена на 
развитие 
как 
рецептивных, так и продуктивных видов речевой 
деятельности. 
Предназначено для студентов-бакалавров 2-х и 3-х курсов по 
направлению 41.03.05 «Международные отношения». 
УДК 811.111(075) 
ББК 81.432.1 
 
Рецензенты: 
Казанская Е.В., к.ф.н., доцент, зав. кафедрой иностранных языков 
для экономических специальностей РГЭУ (РИНХ); 
Руденко Е.С., к.ф.н., доцент кафедры интегративной  
и цифровой лингвистики ДГТУ. 
 
 
Утверждено в качестве учебного пособия  
учебно-методическим советом РГЭУ (РИНХ). 
 
ISBN 978-5-7972-3151-6                        © Ростовский государственный  
                                                                  экономический университет (РИНХ), 2023 
                                                                 © Кисель И.Ф., Хатламаджиян М.А., 2023 

ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ 
 
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS .................................................... 4 
What is International Relations? ....................................................... 4 
 
DIPLOMACY AND NEGOTIATIONS ............................................ 8 
Diplomacy ............................................................................................. 8 
Functional Strata of Diplomacy ....................................................... 12 
Negotiation and Bargaining .............................................................. 19 
 
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS ........................................................... 30 
The Role of the Embassy and the Ambassador .............................. 30 
 
TERRORISM ..................................................................................... 38 
What is Terrorism? ........................................................................... 38 
The Instrument of Counterterrorism .............................................. 43 
 
WAR AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS .............................. 52 
The Essence of War ........................................................................... 52 
Types of Warfare ............................................................................... 56 
International conflicts ....................................................................... 62 
 
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ....................................... 69 
Historical Development of International Organizations ............... 69 
The United Nations System ............................................................... 74 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 
 
What is International Relations? 
 
WORDS AND TERMS TO BE REMEMBERED 
 
adjust 
entity 
ancient 
ethnic 
alliance 
impact 
applicability 
negotiation 
actor 
political science 
distribution 
psychologist 
dimension 
scholar 
to determine 
theologian 
to define 
threat 
encompass 
 
 
What is international relations, and how does it differ from other 
fields of study? International relations flow from contacts and 
interactions among countries, such as political interactions among 
governments, 
such 
as 
wars, 
alliances, 
diplomatic 
relations, 
negotiations, and threats of military force. Traditionally, students of 
international relations have studied these political interactions almost 
exclusively. However, economic, cultural, religious, racial and ethnic 
ties, and relations between people living in separately organized 
territories may also fall within the proper sphere of international 
relations. 
As a field of study, international relations is relatively new and 
is difficult to define precisely. Although international relations first 
appeared as a field of study only about seventy years ago, the study of 
history, economics, and government (or politics) comes from the 
ancient Greeks. To be sure, even the ancients studied international 
relations but usually as an adjust to history or politics. In most 
American universities, international relations is considered one of the 
major sub-fields of political science. But, in fact, many scholars who 
consider themselves students of international relations are not political 
scientists. International relations is interdisciplinary in character and, 
thus, defining its precise boundaries as a field is difficult.  

Students of international relations include mathematicians (who 
build mathematical models of arms races), economists (who study the 
international trade and monetary system), psychologists (who study 
the role of perception in international decision making), lawyers (who 
study international law), theologians (who study the moral 
implications of international policy), historians (who study diplomatic 
history and the evolution of the state system), sociologists (who study 
group behaviour among nations), and anthropologists (who study and 
compare the interactions of cultures). Even physicists and biologists 
study international relations. Physicists have been active in the nuclear 
weapons field and have voiced concerns about the impact of new 
weapons system on international relations. Biologists, on the other 
hand, have studied theories of aggression in the animal kingdom and 
their applicability to international phenomena such as war. The 
unifying thread among students in these different fields is the study of 
interactions between and among separately constituted governments, 
societies, and peoples. 
Important events occurring between and within states affect 
international relations. This concept raises another issue for the 
student of international relations to consider: the level-of-analysis 
problem. To add some clarity and order to the exploration of the 
various dimensions of international relations, it is useful to 
differentiate the five levels of analysis: the individual level, the 
subnational group level, the national level, the regional level, and the 
international (or systematic) level. 
Clearly, individuals, especially key decision makers such as 
presidents and foreign ministers, have an impact on international 
relations. Their thoughts, perceptions, and attitudes can determine 
whether a nation goes to war or stay at peace. Certainly, the behaviors 
of subnational interest group, governmental departments, and agencies 
that influence or formulate a country’s foreign policy should also be 
studied carefully. 
Nation-states are the dominant actors in IR, and their behavior 
has attracted the greatest amount of interest among students and 
scholars. But nation-states also have regional relations; they form 
trade blocks, alliances, and international organizations to help achieve 
their mutual interests. These regional organizations, in turn, can affect 

the policies of nations. Finally, the nation-state lives in an 
international environment as well. The international system level 
encompasses all international interactions, regional systems, and the 
overall distribution of power between states. A state ignores the 
structure of the international system as a whole at its peril. The serious 
student of IR should be interested in how entities at each level of 
analysis affect IR, but also in how each level of analysis is affected by 
the other levels. 
 
WORD STUDY 
 
Exercise 1. Give Russian equivalents of the following expressions: 
threat of military force; ethnic ties; to define precisely; to study as an 
adjust to history; arms race; group behaviour among nations; the 
impact of new weapons systems; the level-of-analysis problem; 
dimensions of international relations; to have an impact on; the 
dominant actors of international relations; to form trade blocks, 
alliances; to achieve mutual interests. 
 
Exercise 2. Match each word or expression on the left with the 
correct definition on the right: 
1) to adjust 
1) to divide among many; to deliver; classify 
2) to impact 
2) an expression or warning of intent to do 
harm 
3) to distribute  
3) to strike or affect forcefully 
4) threat 
4) to make work correctly; to regulate 
5) precise 
5) an indirect expression 
6) attitude 
6) exact; definite 
7) implication 
7) a mental position; the feeling one has for 
oneself 
Exercise 3. Give English equivalents of the following expressions 
and make up your own sentences with them: 
области изучения; дипломатические отношения; переговоры; 
расовые и культурные связи; определить точные границы; 
международное право; сравнивать взаимосвязь культур; ядерное 
оружие; влиять на международные отношения; животный мир; 

события, происходящие между и внутри государств; прояснить; 
достигать взаимовыгодных интересов. 
 
Exercise 4. Give all possible word combinations with the following 
verbs and translate them into Russian: 
to define; to occur; to determine; to encompass; to deplete; to adjust; 
to distribute; to dominate. 
 
SPEECH EXERCISES 
 
Exercise 1. Answer the following questions. 
1. What do International Relations flow from? 
2. What may fall within the proper sphere of International Relations? 
3. When did International Relations first appear as a field of study? 
4. Whom do students of International Relations include? 
5. How are physicists, biologists connected with the field of 
International Relations? 
6. What can influence and formulate country’s foreign policy? 
7. Nation-states are the dominant actors in International Relations, 
aren’t they? 
8. How does International Relations differ from other fields of study? 
 
Exercise 2. Expand on the following statements. 
1. International Relations flow from contacts and interactions among 
countries. 
2. International Relations developed synthetically, not organically. 
3. Important events occurring between and within states affect 
International Relations. 
 
Exercise 3. Give your own definition of “International Relations”. 
 
 
 

DIPLOMACY AND NEGOTIATIONS 
 
Section 1 
 
WORDS AND TERMS TO BE REMEMBERED 
 
ambassador 
to encompass 
array 
envoy 
attach 
to engage in 
to attach 
involvement 
boundary 
immunity 
to conduct 
refugee 
contemporary 
to negotiate 
to comply 
to pursue 
comprehensive 
to presume 
ad hoc gathering 
treasury 
crashworthiness 
shrinkage 
to circumvent 
subsidiary 
 
Diplomacy 
The term “diplomacy” has taken on a variety of meanings in the 
international relations literature. Some writers view it as “an art of 
conducting negotiations in the process of implementing foreign 
policy”. Others use it interchangeably with foreign policy involving 
the entire foreign relations process. Or still others see it as “the 
process or method by which governments pursue foreign policy”. 
Whichever definition is used, logically there is no diplomacy without 
diplomats. So we can suggest the following definition of diplomacy: 
The conduct of relations between nation-states through their 
accredited officials for the purpose of advancing the interests of the 
appointing state. Although in popular usage diplomacy is used 
interchangeably with negotiations, these two terms have different, 
more precise applications. 
The history of diplomacy predates modern international relations 
by centuries. It can be traced back to ancient times in China, India and 
Egypt when it primarily involved the delivery of message and