Concepts
New Influences
Use of Force
New Tools
New Challenges
100

This term describes an international treaty design that is not vague.

Precision

100

These groups gain their power from access to information.

Transnational Advocacy Networks

100

This form of military intervention focuses on protecting foreign civilians from man-made harm.

Humanitarian intervention

100

This word for a very strong norm is one explanation for the pattern of nuclear non-use.

Taboo

100

This type of attack is defined by digital targets and digital means.

Cyberattack

200

Nuclear weapons operate based on this 10-letter term.

Deterrence

200

Questioning statism and functionalism, the Frankenstein model of institutions is associated with this theory of international relations.

Constructivism

200

To be considered a military intervention, the action must involve this type of military troops.

Combat

200

This weapons system is subject to ethical debates because it makes decisions about targeting and firing without human input.

Autonomous weapons system

200

This theory expects states to only care about climate change when their national security is affected.

Realism

300

This view of globalization focuses not only on the amount, but on the speed of cross-border transactions.

Supraterritoriality

300

This type of treaty does not operate through reciprocity.

Human Rights

300

Because of advances in military medicine, this measure is no longer a reliable way to measure the amount of violent conflict in the world.

Battle deaths

300

The rational non-use explanation expects states to follow this logic.

The logic of consequences

300

This problem describes how difficult it is to be certain about the source of a cyberattack.

The Attribution Problem

400

This model explains how transnational advocacy networks help indirectly pressure repressive governments.

Boomerang

400

This category of the laws of war governs when states can legitimately begin a war. 

Jus ad bellum

400
One unintended side effect of jus in bello is that states no longer formally do this.
Declare war
400
States that seek nuclear weapons to increase their status reflect this model of proliferation.

The Normative Model

400

This region links climate change with great power competition.

The Arctic 

500

This form of in-group favoritism relates to absolute gains.

Compatriotism

500

Transnational advocacy groups target issues that are high in this.

Value content

500

These three changes made the practice of humanitarian intervention possible.

Universal Human Rights, Decolonization, and the end of the Cold War

500
Part of the Hague Convention, this Clause has been used to argue that AWS should be banned because they are an affront to the public conscience.

The Martens Clause

500

A cyberattack that changes the data in a system.

Integrity Attack

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