International Law
Chi-national Issues
Theories in IR
Analysis of the International System
Go Dip in plomacy
100

What power doe the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council have?

Veto
100

He was the victorious Chinese Communist leader, who led his party to victory in the civil war of 1945-49 and declared "The Chinese people have stood up!"

Mao Zedong

100

This theory assumes that relations among states are determined primarily by coercion and consent.  Leaders respond to military, economic, and diplomatic forces.  And states behave based on the rational and logical pursuit of goals.

Realism

100

After the international/system level, what is below that?

State level

100

A system of structured communication between two or more parties; a process between actors (diplomats, usually representing a state) who exist within a system (international relations) and engage in private and public dialogue (diplomacy) to pursue their objectives in a peaceful manner.

diplomacy

200

A set of rules that govern the international relations between sovereign state and between individuals in different states

International Law

200

When China annexed Tibet what country cut diplomatic ties?

Bhutan

200

This theory divides countries into 3 groups: core, semi-periphery and periphery 

The World Systems Theory

200

Governments are ____________ on the world stage and their foreign policies contribute to what we call international relations

actors

200

Name 1 state that is not a member of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty 

South Sudan, Israel, North Korea, India, Pakistan 
300

International law only works if they can be ________________ and if countries comply

Enforced

300

After Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev started a massive series of reforms, Chinese students began to rise up and demand their own rights until the Chinese government cracked down on those protesting in this "square" with assault rifles and tanks, leading to what is known as the _____ Square 

Tiananmen Square Massacre

300

Under this theory, individuals and private actors are the primary actors in international relations.  Their values matter.  So liberal democracies pursue different goals than selfish dictators (such as human rights as opposed to individual power and wealth).

Liberalism

300

One argument for analyzing IR is to follow the ______________ approach focusing on the location, or ‘locus’ of interactions, on different platforms that provide the stage to particular events and instances of international relations.

arena

300

What year did the US drop the first atomic bomb on Japan?

1945

400

The first major intergovernmental organization designed to provide collective security, it established a mandatory cooling off period and attempt at a diplomatic solution before opposing sides could engage in hostilities.

League of Nations

400

Xinjiang province is important to China implementing what policy?

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) 

400

This theory understands the core concepts of international relations to be "socially constructed."  So whether someone is a terrorist or a freedom fighter will depend on the meaning a particular society attributes his actions.

Constructivism

400

Who argued for analyzing the international system as a place of interactions between states?

Waltz

400

What country attacked the US embassy and hold people hostage?

Iran

500

The first stage of international law is called....

Norm emergence

500

What tactic/strategy is China currently using with Tibet?

suppression

500

The focus of this discipline was placed on including the viewpoints of those from the Global South to ensure that Western scholars no longer spoke on their behalf

Postcolonialism

500
For most scholars, who is the primary actor in the international system? 

The state

500

What year was the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty become effective?

1970

M
e
n
u