global affairs

World political matters

Global affairs refers to issues, events, and relationships that transcend national boundaries—diplomacy, international trade, conflicts, and cooperation between nations.

The term encompasses everything from climate agreements to military alliances to humanitarian crises: She studied global affairs in graduate school.

Someone who follows global affairs stays informed about world events and geopolitics.

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geographic scope

global affairsdomestic policy

Government actions within borders

domestic affairs · internal affairs · local politics · national politics · home front

sphere of concern

global affairsprivate life

One's nonpublic existence

personal business · private sphere · self-interest · domestic life

Family

globe, global, affair, globalization, globally, globalize, globalism, globalized, globalist

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G