As I have (belatedly) begun to be interested in the academic world, one of the things that has most interested me has been International Relations Theory. I have not yet gone in to it as deeply as I want to, but it seems of key importance to me - some of the things the academics are writing about seem to be directly about 'human nature' and the 'collective unconscious'.

I have gathered 5 pages about this:-

• The Normal Realist view (which causes all our problems)
• The dilemma of inside/outside the sovereign state
• Post-modernism and IR theory
• Internationalism versus Globalisation
• Sectoral inefficiency in the International society

The first 3 of these pages are summaries of the developing academic theories - I hope to expand and improve these as time goes on. I think they are important as they give the first signs of a real 'world psychology'.

The second two are from my work at the UIA, and I welcome suggestions as to how I can develop these further, as they seem to indicate a useful direction to solve some problems.

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