IPE
This international conference established the regulatory system that characterized the world economy from 1944-1973, in an attempt to bring stability under the US sphere of influence.
Bretton Woods
This term refers to the set of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures around which actors' expectations converge in the domain of human rights.
International human rights regime
This institution, established in 2002, has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the int'l crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
International Criminal Court (ICC)
This technology of military conflict or rebellion is characterized by small, lightly armed bands practicing guerrilla warfare from rural base areas.
Insurgency
This term is used to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their short-term self-interest leads to resource depletion and decreased collective welfare.
This person has served as the president of Chapman University since September 2016.
Daniele Struppa
The mass killing of nearly 800,000 Rwandans, especially Tutsi and moderate Hutus, which took place from April-July 1994 is typically referred to as this.
This international financial institution emerged out of the Bretton Woods Conference, and provides extensive technical and short-term financial assistance to member states experiencing currency or debt crises.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
This document, issued in 1948 by the UN, provides a comprehensive list of interdependent and indivisible human rights accepted as authoritative by most states and other international actors.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This international treaty, signed in 1997, extends the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions based on scientific consensus that global warming is occurring, and that human activity has caused it.
Kyoto Protocol
This term refers to acts of violence perpetrated by nonstate actors against civilians, intended to intimidate a broader population in order to achieve political goals.
Terrorism
This has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Sustainable development
The UN named this war as 2018's worst humanitarian crisis.
Yemen civil war
This term refers to the movement of money around the world for the purpose of investment, trade, or business production.
Global capital flows
This term describes trade-related government policies that reduce the role of the state in the economy through the dismantling of tariff and non-tariff barriers.
Trade liberalization
This practice is used by human rights organizations to try to persuade actors to adopt human rights norms by exposing and publicizing human rights violations
Naming and shaming
This term refers to networks of actors from various states who mobilize around causes, principled ideas, and norms.
Transnational advocacy networks
This term refers to the security of people, including their physical safety, the economic and social well-being, respect for their dignity, and the protection of their human rights.
Human security
This term refers to the tendency for aspects of IR (security, trade, environmental management, etc.) to be organized around 3 or more states, rather than unilateral state action.
Multilateralism
This international human rights organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
Amnesty International
This term refers to worldwide integration characterized by the deepening and extension of economic activities across states.
Globalization
This term refers to policy requirements imposed by the IMF or World Bank - usually with a distinctively neoliberal character - in return for the disbursement of loans.
Conditionalities
This term refers to the totality of all individuals and groups in a society who are not acting as participants in any government institutions or in the interests of commercial companies.
Civil society
This interim measure, or precursor to the WTO, was introduced as part of the Bretton Woods framework to provide a context for the extension of bilateral agreements to reduce tariff barriers to trade through a series of negotiating rounds.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
In his "Rationalist Explanations for War," James Fearon argues that incentives to misrepresent private information, the inability to make credible commitments, and this factor might lead states to go to war, despite the heavy costs that it imposes on all parties.
Issue indivisibility
This term refers describes the twin commitments made by states in the post-WWII period to create a regulatory system for the world economy that would promote free trade globally and also ensure the growth and welfare of domestic economies.
Embedded liberalism
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander starred in this hit comedy series that aired from 1989-1998.
Seinfeld
This term refers to the belief of key opinion-formers in Washington (namely the heads of the IMF, World Bank, and US Treasury Department) that global welfare would be maximized by the application of economic policies that favor deregulation and globalized financial markets, free trade, and globalized production structures.
Washington Consensus
The late 19th/early 20th century system through which all trading relationships were regulated through the movement of gold from importing countries to exporting countries.
Gold Standard
This effect refers to the process that is set off when individuals and domestic groups have no recourse to domestic politics, and search out international allies to bring pressure on their government.
Boomerang effect
This global civil society coalition works to promote adherence to and full implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which it designed and influenced 55 states to sign in July 2017.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
This term refers to the conviction of world leaders and entire societies in the lead up to WWI that offensive advantages were so great that a defending force would have no hope of repelling an attack; consequently all states preferred to attack.
Cult of the offensive
Rationalist approaches to international organizations adopt this framework to explain the behavior of organizations such as the UN, usually to emphasize the dilemma that emerges when states delegate decisions to other entities.
Principal-agent problem
The LA Dodgers last won the World Series in this year.
1988
This international organization that is part of the UN provides the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change and its political and economic consequences.
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)