International Organizations
This organization, formed in 1949, is a military alliance among various North American and European states.
What is NATO?
A tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
Refers to the withdrawal process of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
What is BREXIT?
This approach assumes that the main actor in foreign policy is a rational individual who can be relied on to make informed, calculated decisions that maximize value and perceived benefits to the state.
What is the Rational Actor Model Theory?
Eleanor Roosevelt was involved in the drafting of this major human rights document.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This organization, focused on oil policy, brings together several of the world’s leading oil producers.
What is OPEC?
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
What is an Embargo?
The only part of the European Union that is elected directly by Europeans in a popular vote is the
A game theory concept in which two actors would be better off cooperating, but have incentives to, and do, defect
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma?
The ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, took office on 1st January 2017.
Who is António Guterres?
This relatively young international organization works to facilitate international trade.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
An investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country.
What is Foreign Direct Investment?
A pact eliminating most trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico that went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994.
A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.
This group is sometimes called the “Blue Helmets”
Who are the UN peacekeeping troops?
This organization is the leading administrator of programs to help the world’s refugees.
What is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)?
A trade agreement established between three or more countries with the intention of reducing barriers to trade, such as tariffs, subsidies, and embargoes, that limit a nation's ability to import or export goods.
What is a Multilateral Agreement?
An international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
The Theory referring to the ethical and moral considerations that should be included in a decision to go to war.
What is Just War theory?
The UN successfully organized peace talks between these two nations feuding over Kashmir, and brought their forces back to the 1947 cease-fire lines.
What is India & Pakistan?
This organization serves as the world’s nuclear watchdog and works on broader issues connected to nuclear technology.
What is the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?
The respective acronym for the NAFTA-style deal with five nations (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua).
The treaty, now expired (as of 2019), prevented Ukraine and Russia from invading one another's country respectively, and declaring war.
What is The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership?
______ says that learners construct knowledge rather than just passively take in information. As people experience the world and reflect upon those experiences, they build their own representations and incorporate new information into their pre-existing knowledge.
What is Constructivism?
The judicial branch of the United Nations.
What is the International Court of Justice?