Advanced IR Theory
This theorist argued that international institutions reflect the distribution of power and cannot overcome anarchy.
Who is Kenneth Waltz?
This 1962 crisis nearly resulted in nuclear war between the U.S. and the USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The primary judicial body of the United Nations.
What is the International Court of Justice?
This country’s policy of “strategic ambiguity” governs its stance on defending Taiwan.
What is the United States?
The strategic infrastructure project through which China expands its global influence.
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
This subfield of constructivism argues that states’ identities are shaped through repeated, structured interactions.
What is structuration or practice theory?
The agreement that ended WWI and placed heavy reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Treaty that prevents the spread of nuclear weapons and promotes peaceful nuclear energy use.
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
This doctrine declared that Latin America was off-limits to European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This region has become the focal point of U.S.–China strategic competition over microchips.
What is Taiwan?
Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye’s idea that states are connected through multiple channels beyond just military and economic ties.
What is complex interdependence?
The 1973 conference that led to the first direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt.
What is the Geneva Peace Conference?
The legal doctrine allowing states to intervene militarily in another state to prevent mass atrocities.
What is Responsibility to Protect (R2P)?
Japan’s post-WWII foreign policy strategy renouncing offensive military capabilities.
What is the Yoshida Doctrine?
This military pact between Australia, the UK, and the U.S. is designed to counter China.
What is AUKUS?
Term for the argument that rising powers and declining powers are likely to go to war because of shifts in the balance of power.
What is power transition theory?
This policy of the Nixon administration aimed to exploit tensions between China and the USSR.
What is triangular diplomacy?
This legal term describes customary rules accepted as binding by states, such as prohibitions on genocide or slavery.
What is jus cogens?
India’s Cold War policy of not formally aligning with either the U.S. or USSR.
What is non-alignment?
The war begun in 2022 that fundamentally altered Europe’s security architecture.
What is the Russia–Ukraine war?
The theory that norms evolve in three stages—emergence, cascade, and internalization.
What is the norm life-cycle model (Finnemore & Sikkink)?
The 1919 territorial dispute between Japan and China that sparked mass Chinese protests and influenced the CCP's rise.
What is the Shandong Problem
The WTO mechanism that allows states to challenge each other's trade practices legally.
What is the dispute settlement body (DSB)?
The EU’s 2003 doctrine emphasizing multilateralism and preventative engagement.
What is the European Security Strategy?
Name the resource and region that have pushed the Arctic into major-power competition.
What are rare earth/mineral resources in the Arctic Circle?