Internal affairs may refer to:

Government and law

* The

domestic policy Domestic policy, also known as internal policy, is a type of public policy overseeing administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a state's borders. It differs from foreign policy, which refers to the ways ...

of a sovereign state *

Ministry of home affairs An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement. In some states, the i ...

, a common type of government department **

Department of Internal Affairs The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA; ) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with issuing passports; administering applications for citizenship and lottery grants; enforcing censorship and gambling laws; registering births, ...

, New Zealand ** Directorate for Internal Affairs (Jewish Autonomous Oblast), Russia *

Internal affairs (law enforcement) Internal affairs (often known as IA) is a division of a law enforcement agency that investigates incidents and possible suspicions of crime, criminal and professional misconduct attributed to members of the parent force. It is thus a mechanism o ...

, a division of a law enforcement agency which investigates cases of police misconduct *

Internal affairs doctrine The internal affairs doctrine is a choice of law rule in corporate law. Simply stated, it provides that the "internal affairs" of a corporation (e.g. conflicts between shareholders and management figures such as the board of directors and corpora ...

, a choice of law rule in corporations law

Arts and entertainment

Film

* ''Internal Affairs'' (film), a 1990 American crime thriller * ''Internal Affairs'', a 1988 television film starring

Richard Crenna Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American actor and television director. Crenna starred in such motion pictures as '' Made in Paris'' (1966), '' Marooned'' (1969), '' Breakheart Pass'' (1975), '' The Evil'' ...

Literature

* ''Internal Affair'', a 2003 novel by

Marie Ferrarella Marie Ferrarella, née Rydzynski (born March 28, 1948, in West Germany) is an American writer of over 272 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella, which have been translated into at least seven languages. She has also written under the names Marie N ...

* ''Internal Affairs'', a 2009 novel by

Jessica Andersen Jessica S. Andersen (born 1973) is an American writer. Since 2001, she has published over forty books in romance, mystery and science genres. Andersen holds a PhD in Genetics from Tufts University. Biography Born in 1973, Andersen was born and ...

Television

Music