Framework
Actors
An economic doctrine based on a belief that military power and economic influence complemented each other, favoring the mother country over its colonies and over its competitors.
Mercantalism
The peace treaty between the Allies and Germany that formally ended World War I on June 28, 1919
Treaty of Versailles
An alliance formed in 1949 among the United States, Canada and most of the states of Western Europe in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Globalization
What actors want to achieve through political action; their preferences over the outcomes that might result from their political choices.
Interests
The settlement that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648; often said to have created the modern state system because it included a general recognition of the principles of sovereignty and nonintervention.
Peace of Westphalia
A collective security organization founded in 1919 after World War I. It ended in 1946 and was replaced by the United Nations.
League of Nations
A military alliance formed in 1955 to bring together the Soviet Union and its Cold War allies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
Warsaw Pact
A political ideology which prioritizes national interests over international interests, including global trade and immigration, which saw an upsurge in the late 2010s.
Populism
The ways in which the choices of two or more actors combine to produce political outcomes.
Interactions
Pax Britannica
The monetary order negotiated among the World War II Allies in 1944, which lasted until the 1970s and which was based on a US dollar tied to gold.
Bretton Woods Monetary System
A nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, considered one of the most tense moments of the Cold War.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The country invaded by Sadaam Hussein, leading to the first United Nations-sanctioned military intervention
Sets of rules (known and shared by the community) that structure interactions in specific ways.
Institutions
The predominance of one nation-state over others.
Hegemony
Hyperinflation
An organization created by so-called "third world" countries as an attempt at economic reform in the global oil industry.
OPEC
Russia annexed this region of Ukraine in 2014, violating the principles of sovereignty laid out in the Peace of Westphalia
Crimea
The expectation that states have legal and political supremacy -- or ultimate authority -- within their territorial boundaries.
Sovereignty
The monetary system that prevailed between 1870 and 1914, in which countries tied their countries to this metal at a legally fixed price.
Gold Standard
The process of shedding colonial possessions, especially during the rapid end of the European empires in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean between the 1940s and the 1960s.
Decolonization
Conflicts in which two opposing states "fight" by supporting opposite sides in a war, such as the government and rebels in a third state.
Proxy Wars
Agreements among three or more countries in a region to reduce barriers to trade among themselves.
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs)