The International Relations Program at Tufts University offers a course of study for undergraduate students with a primary interest in international and regional studies. The field of international relations includes the study of:

• International and regional systems
• International economics
• The foreign relations of sovereign states, including their political, military, economic, cultural, and environmental policies
• Theories of international conflict and cooperation
• The domestic and transnational interests and actors that influence states
• The historical, political, social, cultural, and ethical traditions that influence the international relations of particular states or regions

A major in international relations is therefore multidisciplinary. However, it should not be conceived simply as an agglomeration of knowledge from several fields. Rather, both faculty and students in international relations strive to compare and integrate the methodologies and evidence they acquire in different disciplinary settings as they seek answers to similar questions.