War and Terror
Institutions that help their members cooperate militarily in the event of war.
Alliance
The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of scarce resources.
Economics
Concern about and action aimed at protecting the environment.
Environmentalism
Migration
The investment of foreign money
International finance
An armed conflict between a state and a nonstate actor that reaches a minimum threshold of severity.
Civil War
The exchange of goods and services across borders, sometimes including the exchange of workers.
International trade
Group of actors who have a strong preference for a public good, and are willing to bear the cost for that common good.
Privileged group
A multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals.
ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)
Looking to secure market share and sales growth in target foreign market.
Market seeking
Technology of military conflict characterized by small, lightly armed bands practicing guerilla warfare from rural base areas.
Insurgency
A tax on imports levied at the border of a country and paid for by the importer.
Tariff
Costs or benefits for others than the person making the decision.
Externalities
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or some kind of natural disaster.
Refugee
Loans and bonds that provide an income stream to the lender but imply no role in managing investment.
Portfolio investment
Tactic that terrorists use that involves attacking dissenters to silence them, especially when terror group's beliefs don't align with most of the home population.
Intimidation
The ability of factors to go across sectors.
Asset Specificity
A good that is available for an actor to consume, without preventing other actors to consume that same good.
Nonexcludable good
States that ratify because it feels it reflects the political preferences of citizens, sign treaties and protect human rights.
Sincere ratifiers
Investment that acquires real assets (facilities) in a foreign country where the foreign investor possesses managerial control.
Foreign direct investment
Broad based institutions that promote peace and security among its members.
Collective security organizations
Theory that the industrial sector matters more than factors.
Ricardo-Viner theorem
One actor's consumption of the good does not diminish the quantity available for other actors to consume.
Nonrival goods
The forcible return of refugees to the country from where they came.
Refoulment
The promise of a country to keep its national currency at a constant value.
Fixed exchange rate