When Ash Does Matter

Once upon a time International Relations just was the matter of Real Politiks, power, war and peace. But nowadays it's changed dramatically. These days the ash of volcanic eruption in Iceland has great influence on international arena. For example tens of thousands of flights have been canceled and it coasts billions of dollars for most of the airlines of the world. The funeral ceremony of Poland president held in absence of many leaders of the world. Lots of international organizations meetings including the United Nations have been postponed. Even ironically we can say FC Barcelona football team defeated against Italian team, Inter Milan, because they forced to travel by bus instead of flying by airplane. These developments clearly show that International Relations as an academic discipline is not the matter of hard power anymore and it should be studied from different aspects of human life like social, economic, environment etc. Perhaps it's better to divide international relations into some sub categories in order to not ignore the subjects like climate change or some sub-national matters. This can help the students not to confuse in IR discipline and also contributes the politicians to take into consideration some ex-trivial matters like ash!
At last we can welcome the new term of "Volcanic Ash Clouds" in politics and International Relation jargon referring to a bad situation of some phenomena. For example we can say the "Volcanic Ash Clouds" is on the Greek economy.