Politics
Politics (from , meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
Global politics
Global politics is said by some to be distinct from the field of international politics (commonly seen as a branch of international relations), as it "does not stress the primacy of intergovernmental relations and transactions". This distinction however has not always been held among authors and political scientists, who often use the term "international politics" to mean global politics.