International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

IR is so important in our daily life with which are intractably linked such issues as Gender, Terror, Environ, Globalization, Trans-Border Migration etc & etc ! How are the school children, who will be the leaders of tomorrow in different walks of life and shape their environment, perceive these issues? Do such issues as Iranian and North Korean Nuclearization, Global Warming, Conflict in the South China Sea, the Syrian Crisis, ISIS and Cross-Border Terrorism or Global Jihad and a host of others bother them? Do they find some linkages between domestic politics and international politics? Do they take interest in the developments, happening outside their country? How would they approach conflict resolution of some festering problems? How their leaders or other leaders have helped to shape the world through their foreign policies? What are their sources of information, their level of cognition and how is their political socialization going, i.e. are they going left or right or are they going forward? How important is IR study for them? This empirical study through structured questionnaires and supplemented by some personal interviews in the higher grade classes of Schools in an Indian State seeks to address these questions. ------------------ This Paper was presented at the 60th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 2019 in Toronto.