Theories
The theoretical approach that focuses on power and security
What is realism?
An international organization whose members are states
What is an intergovernmental organization?
These are two common categories of war.
What are civil and interstate, or conventional and unconventional?
The WWII ally that quickly became the US's postwar rival.
What is the USSR?
The name for the idea that we can only envision, not know, who the other members of our nation are.
The theoretical approach associated with the democratic peace theory
What is Liberalism?
An international organization whose members are individuals
What is a nongovernmental organization?
This type of war is increasing.
What is civil war?
The defining characteristics of the Cold War
What are ideological conflict, posession of nuclear weapons, competition through proxy wars, and competing spheres of influence?
The name for fear of outsiders.
What is xenophobia?
The theorist who said that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short"
Who is Hobbes?
An example of a global intergovernmental organization
What is the UN? but other answers are possible
These are two of the elements that define terrorism according to Title 22 of US Code.
What are
-politically motivated
-violence
-intended to influence an audience
-by a party not formally designated by a state
Glastnost.
What was Gorbachev's attempt to introduce more transparency into the government of the Soviet Union?
-territory
-internal support for government
-population
-external recognition
The theory that argues that reality is what states make of it
What is Constructivism?
The precursor to the EU, immediately following WWII
What is the ECSC?
The five categories of WMDs.
What are nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological?
The name for the US's strategy to stop Soviet expansion.
What is containment?
What are
-state has clear beginning and ending times, nation does not
-state must have territory, nation does not
-state has clear rules for membership, but in a nation this is fluid
The lack of a central world government to make states cooperate
What is anarchy?
The reason few regions are likely to be able to copy the EU's degree of integration
What are lack of economic and cultural homogenaeity?
The capability on which nuclear deterrence rests.
What is second strike capability?
The name of one of the proxy wars between the US and USSR.
What is Vietnam? Or Korea. Or the Yom Kippur War. Etc.
A stateless nation.
Who are the Kurds, the Palestinians, the Basque (other answers may be acceptable).