FRONT MATTER

Abstract
AEGIS Journal of International Relations is a bi-annual journal which publishes articles on issues, events and discourses in International Relations on the bases of the broadening scope in the discipline. As the world is moving toward one borderless village due to the globalization which replaced the Cold War in 1989, the nature and characteristics of IR is dramatically changing and so has been the academic scope of the discipline. Among the new characteristics of the IR in the globalization are the interconnected of local and global, both events and issues, and the prominent important of international organization, which has been growing in numbers, membership and roles.