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This term describes mutual reliance between states, economies, or societies.
What is interdependence?
This language has become dominant in global business, diplomacy, and entertainment.
This problem, which doesn't respect national sovereignty or borders, results from rising carbon emissions worldwide.
What is climate change?
This is the full name for the acronym WTO.
What is the World Trade Organization?
This is the full name for the acronym NATO.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This term describes the increasing global integration of markets, cultures, and politics.
What is globalization?
This global sporting event promotes shared identity while reinforcing national pride.
What is the Olympic Games?
This environmental issue crosses borders through air and water systems, and affects both urban and rural environments.
What is pollution?
This term describes countries specializing in goods they produce most efficiently, for example electronics in Japan or palm oil in Malaysia.
What is comparative advantage?
This term describes mutual defense commitments among states.
What is collective security?
This term refers to the process of organizing relations between groups of three or more states (as opposed to acting alone or with one other state).
What is multilateralism?
This social media platform, originating in China, connects global audiences through short-form digital content.
What is TikTok?
This international agreement, made in Europe, aims to limit global temperature increases.
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?
This policy restricts imports to protect domestic industries.
What is protectionism?
This concept explains how defensive actions can increase insecurity: China building island military installations is perceived by the Philippines as aggressive.
What is a security dilemma?
This term refers to the ability to prevent the passage of a measure through a unilateral act, for example a single negative vote.
What is veto power?
This concept, often used to criticize globalization, explains the spread of similar consumer culture worldwide. (Hint: We all become the same.)
What is cultural homogenization?
This UN-sponsored organization coordinates international climate science research.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?
This agreement reduced tariffs among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is the USMCA?
This treaty clause commits NATO members to collective defense: an attack upon one is an attack upon all.
What is Article V of the NATO Charter?
This term refers to cooperation combining formal international institutions with informal alliances, regional groups, and non-state actors to address complex global challenges collectively.
What is hybrid multilateralism?
This UN-sponsored organization protects cultural heritage sites affected by globalization.
What is UNESCO?
This environmental disaster originating from an earthquake in Japan in 2011 affected multiple countries through ocean currents.
What is the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
This organization provides loans to states facing debt crises; it has many supporters and many critics.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
This Russia-led security alliance includes Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
What is the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)?