International politics is a single subject study dealing with only political
relations among states and governments. Internal politics is strictly limited to official relations and meeting between states and officials. International politics are studied with a more traditional approach highlighting mainly history and current affairs analysis. In the simplest terms possible, politics is what people do to get and retain power. Governance is how they use that power once they have it. So, running an election campaign, dealing with the media, making yourself look good and your opponents look bad, drawing up a manifesto, things like that are all part of the phenomenon we call politics. Governance involves things like making and repealing laws, holding diplomatic meetings with foreign leaders, setting taxes and managing the national budget, handling matters of war and national defence. As a side note, one could say that all governance is political, (because decisions made in power are always made with re-election in mind), but not all politics is about governance (because anyone, including those with no power at all, can be involved in politics). I assume OP doesn’t just want a dictionary definition, since anyone could find that online without asking on Quora for a bespoke answer. I will try to keep this short, as the other answers so far have done. My perspective here is that of a cultural anthropologist. A sociologist or a political scientist may give OP a different answer. “Culture” to an anthropologist is the sum total of ALL learned behaviors (that is, non-genetic, non-instinctual) that are passed on by a given social group from generation to generation. It includes EVERYTHING of that nature — the forms of social organization and family structure, the forms of governance and of relations with outsiders, as well as technology, cuisine, couture, architecture, arts and crafts, literature and lore, religion and ritual, and so forth. Many cultures overlap with others, share elements of their culture with other cultures, or borrow from other cultures they have come into contact with. Any given group — even a subset of a larger group — which has traditions of their own that they pass along from old members