Global Economy & Trade
The term for the increasing interconnectedness of economies, cultures, and politics across the world.
(What is globalization?)
A formal agreement between two or more countries is known as this.
(What is a treaty?)
This international organization was created in 1945 to promote global peace and security.
(What is the United Nations?)
This international relations theory argues that states act in their own self-interest, focusing on power and security.
(What is Realism?)
A trade policy where a country imposes tariffs or quotas to protect domestic industries is known as this.
(What is protectionism?)
The Cold War was primarily a geopolitical conflict between these two superpowers.
(What are the United States and the Soviet Union?)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) helps countries facing financial crises by providing this kind of assistance.
(What are loans?)
According to constructivism, this factor, rather than material power, plays a key role in shaping state behavior.
(What is identity or norms?) ("ideas" might be acceptable)
The Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 led to the creation of these two major international financial institutions.
(What are the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank?)
This doctrine, associated with nuclear strategy, suggests that mutual destruction prevents war between nuclear states.
(What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?)
This international court prosecutes individuals for crimes like genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
(What is the International Criminal Court?) (2002 - Rome Statute)
The "security dilemma" is most associated with this theory of international relations.
(What is Realism?)
This regional trade agreement includes the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
(What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)? / formerly NAFTA?)
The Treaty of Westphalia (1648) is significant in international relations because it established this key principle.
(What is state sovereignty?)
This organization, founded in 1995, regulates international trade and settles disputes between member states.
(What is the World Trade Organization?)
This theory (theories) of international relations argues that global politics is shaped by historical structures of power and economic exploitation?
(What is critical theory? / What is Marxist IR theory?) (Also acceptable - World System Theory or Dependency Theory)
This economic policy approach promotes reducing tariffs, subsidies, and other trade barriers to encourage free trade between nations. (Hint: use a different answer than "free trade.")
(What is trade liberalization?)
This type of diplomacy involves unofficial negotiations carried out by individuals, NGOs, or private actors rather than governments.
(What is track II diplomacy?)
The UN Security Council has five permanent members. Name all of them.
(What are the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and France?)
This structural theory of international relations suggests that global politics is shaped by economic inequalities between the core and periphery.
(What is World-Systems theory?)