Geopolitics is a theory within IR and describes the relation between politcs and territory and comprises the art and practice of analyzing, proscribing, forecasting and using political power over a given territory.It has evolved over the past century to encompass wider connotations.

Counterterrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.

Wars produce the worst violations of human rights worldwide and are the greatest impediment to human development. Most of the more than 50 major armed conflicts since the Cold War have been internal clashes over religion, national or ethnic identity, and/or access to natural resources or wealth. Conflict Resolution works to mitigate such conflicts and build sustainable peace.

Realism centers on the international systems level of analysis, and the state or unit actor; the balance of power and the nation-state is the primary actor. Neo-realist theory uses bases of realism but adds “cross cultural comparative analysis” and tries to broaden and deepen realism.

International relations theories can be divided into "positivist/rationalist" theories which focus on a principally state-level analysis, and "post-positivist/reflectivist" ones which incorporate expanded meanings of security, ranging from class, to gender, to postcolonial security. Many often conflicting ways of thinking exist in IR theory, including constructivism, institutionalism, Marxism, neo-Gramscianism, and others. However, two positivist schools of thought are most prevalent: realism and liberalism; though increasingly, constructivism is becoming mainstream and postpositivist theories are increasingly popular, particularly outside the United States.

This forum discusses Homeland & National Security as a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within a country, reduce vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that does occur.

Intelligence Analysis is the process of taking known information about situations and entities of strategic, operational, or tactical importance, characterizing the known, and, with appropriate statements of probability, the future actions in those situations and by those entities. The descriptions are drawn from what may only be available in the form of deliberately deceptive information; the analyst must correlate the similarities among deceptions and extract a common truth.

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