War is stupid, and people are stupid
IPE is key
IOs and black helicopters
Global North vs. Global South
(Foul) Potpourri
100
A war the goals of which are short of conquest or occupation.
What is a limited war?
100
This school of IPE is comfortable with protectionist policies that protect infant industries until they are strong enough to face international competition
What is mercantilism?
100
International organizations are said to be capable of overcoming the problems of self-interested states in an anarchic system in this school of IR.
What is liberalism?
100
This school of IPE views wealth creation as a zero-sum game, where one party's gains are another party's losses.
What is Marxism/socialism?
100
These loan terms imposed by the IMF force poor countries to adopt neoliberal policies.
What are conditionalities?
200
These are three levels at which war can be analyzed.
What is the individual (leaders' psychology), domestic (ideological or economic differences), inter-state (power relations between states), or global (characteristics of the world system) level?
200
This school of IPE uses David Ricardo's Comparative Advantage Theory to make recommendations for economic policy.
What is liberalism/neoliberalism?
200
These are the sources of international law.
What is conventions/treaties, tradition/practice, general principles ("jus cogens"), and court decisions/legal scholars.
200
Marxism/socialism views these as the key actors in the international system.
What are classes?
200
"Foreign aid" includes these, which in many cases do not "aid" poor countries at all.
What are loans and military equipment/training?
300
Ethnic conflicts have this at their root.
What is a perceived shared identity in opposition against an "other" perceived shared identity.
300
This is the most common liberal critique of protectionist policies.
What is economic inefficiency?
300
These are the two broad categories of internationally-recognized human rights, one of which is not recognized by the United States government.
What are civil and political rights (freedom of speech, equal right under the law, no arbitrary imprisonment, etc.), and economic and social rights (food, clothes, shelter, education, cultural identity).
300
World Systems Theory splits the world into these three key zones.
What are the core, periphery, and semi-periphery?
300
These are real costs that are not paid by those who impose them.
What are "externalities"?
400
Mercantilism is associated with a higher risk of war arising from this type of conflict.
What is economic conflict?
400
This is the most common mercantilist critique of liberal policies.
What is a lack of historical perspective/looking at comparative advantage over time?
400
Functionalism/neo-functionalism proposes that international ties grow and develop due to this.
What is the need for cross-border cooperation on technical and economic challenges?
400
The rise of European economic and political power coincided with the beginning of what major historical trend?
What is imperialism?
400
This "tragedy" applies to our environment on earth, where individual states and companies have incentives to destroy it, and no individual incentive to protect it.
What is a tragedy of the commons?
500
According to this school of IR, MAD is actually quite sane.
What is realism?
500
Most countries in the world system operate with this sort of currency.
What is fiat currency (not backed to gold) with a free-floating exchange rate (not tied to value of other currencies)?
500
These are the four top organs of the United Nations.
What is the Secretariat, General Assembly, Security Council, and World Court?
500
Dependency theory proposes that rich countries extract this from poor countries.
What is economic surplus/raw materials/low-value-added products?
500
Global warming is predicted by scientists to cause these disasters.
What are rising sea levels (flooding coastal cities), chaotic weather fluctuations (destroying agricultural production), mass migration (to flee from drought, famine, flooding), higher temperatures (making some places uninhabitable), etc.
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