Geography
The country north of South Korea
What is North Korea?
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union for influence after World War II.
What was the Cold War?
The theory of international relations that focuses on big states and their interests with the goal of ensuring stability.
What is realism?
The 15-member group at the UN that decides big issues of sanctions and military use. 5 permanent members have veto power.
What is the UN Security Council?
The president of Russia who ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
The closest large US military base to Taiwan
What is Okinawa?
The long period of foreign domination in China that (theoretically) ended in 1949.
What was the Century of Humiliation?
A war in which two sides are fighting indirectly by supporting different sides in a particular conflict.
What is a proxy war?
The name for the withdrawal of the UK from the EU.
What is Brexit?
The name for when a country recognizes the People’s Republic of China as “the sole legal Government of China.”
What is the One China Policy?
The peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014
What is Crimea?
The peace treaty that ended the 30 Years' War and established states as the basic unit of IR.
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
The cultural or institutional influence that a country has--this is distinct from its military power.
What is soft power?
The international organization that provides currency stabilization and loans to governments.
What is the IMF?
The strategy for Taiwan to use numerous small weapons to fight off a Chinese invasion, rather than big platforms like F-16s and submarines.
What is the porcupine strategy?
The flashpoint of a crisis in 1956 when the UK and France seized a vital waterway.
What is Suez?
The middle class farmers in the Soviet Union who were shot or sent to slave labor camps.
What were kulaks?
The international agreement to ban hydrofluorocarbons in order to save the o-zone. A victory for liberal internationalism.
What was the Montreal Protocol?
The regional supranational organization for Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
What is ASEAN?
The agreement in 1994 for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for the US and Russia guaranteeing its security and borders.
What was the Budapest Memorandum?
The capital of North Darfur, under siege by the RSF.
What is El-Fasher?
The president of Guatemala who was ousted in a US-backed coup.
Who was (Jacobo) Árbenz?
The isolationist think tank founded by George Soros and Charles Koch. Named for a US President.
What is the Quincy Institute?
1 of 2 countries who use the euro without permission from the EU.
What are Montenegro or Kosovo?
What was the February 28 (228) Incident?