external relations
Outside organizational connections
External relations are the dealings an organization has with outside parties—governments, other institutions, the public, or the press.
The term appears most often in corporate and governmental contexts: She works in external relations for the State Department.
It encompasses diplomacy, public affairs, and communications with stakeholders beyond the organization's own membership or employees.
- partnershipsFormal business alliances
- interdependenciesReciprocal reliance between parts
- alliancesFormal unions for cooperation
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
diplomatic ties · outsourcing · stakeholders · international law · embassies · state visit · back channels · cross-cultural communication · sanctions · supply chains · trade agreements · trade mission · arms deal · multilateralism · foreign policy · mergers · interfaces · soft power
- Channel IslandsJersey, Guernsey, Santa Cruz Island, Catalina Island, Channel Islands
- partnershipspartnership, business partnership, alliance, joint venture, joint ventures
external relationsinternal affairs
Officers investigating officers
self-governance · domestic affairs · employee relations · inner workings · human resources
external relationsdomestic affairs
A nation's home issues
internal affairs · domestic policy · home affairs · civil affairs · self-regulation
external, relations, extern, externally, externality, externalities, externalize, externalized, externalizing