Power & Globalization
Quest for Peace
Finance & Trade
Russia
Africa & Americas
100
The concept that national security is enhanced when military capabilities are distributed so that no one state is strong enough to dominate the others.
What is balance of power?
100
The international agreement to prevent the increased production of nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?
100
Barriers to foreign trade, such as tariffs and quotas, that protect local industries from foreign competition.
What is protectionism?
100
Two sets of agreements reached during the 1970's between the US and the Soviet Union to establish limits on strategic nuclear delivery systems.
What are the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)?
100
Three challenges that sub-Saharan African states face.
What are: corruption, poverty, internal conflict, infectious disease, wildlife trafficking, non-diversified economies, resource curse, tribalism, lack of socio-economic development, turbo-urbanization, low commodity prices.
200
The term describing the tendency for weak states to seek alliance with the strongest power, in order to increase their own security.
What is bandwagoning?
200
Multilateral or bilateral agreements to contain arms races by setting limits on the number and types of weapons states are permitted.
What is arms control?
200
With regard to free trade, the principle that barriers to trade must be visible and thus easy to target.
What is transparency?
200
Russian President Putin has described this event as the "greatest political catastrophe of the 20th century."
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
200
This foreign investment activity has grown in Latin and South America, largely as a result of US ignorance of the region over the past decade.
What is Chinese investment?
300
A combination of defense establishments, contractors, and government agencies that benefit from high military spending.
What is the military-industrial complex?
300
The moral criteria identifying when war may be undertaken and how it should be fought.
What is just war doctrine?
300
The total value of all goods and services produced in a country within a year.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
300
Two of the suggestions General Breedlove offers the US for "handling Russia" in the future.
What are: preemption, cooperation, show of strength, credible deterrence, share cost of defense burden ($), rebuilding a strong forward presence in Europe. (Lead/build/use force if necessary)
300
This state can be considered the regional hegemon of Latin/South America.
What is Brazil?
400
A method of coercive diplomacy involving an act of war or threat of force to get an adversary to make concessions against its will.
What is compellence?
400
Agreements to reduce or destroy weapons or other means of attack.
What is disarmament?
400
The selling of one currency (or product) and purchase of another to make a profit on fluctuating exchange rates.
What is arbitrage?
400
One potential area of cooperation between Russia and the US.
What is Iran, North Korea, drug trafficking in Central Asia, fisheries in the North Pacific, operations in the Arctic.
400
Three countries that colonized Africa.
What are France, the UK, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.
500
The concept in economics that, even if a state does not have an absolute advantage in the production of any good, a state will benefit if it specializes in the production of those goods it can produce at a lower opportunity cost.
What is comparative advantage?
500
This logic game demonstrates the circumstantial barriers to international cooperation that exist among distrustful transnational actors.
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma?
500
System in which the relative value of a currency is set by market forces.
What is a floating exchange rate?
500
Name one of the two eastern European countries where NATO established new tactical headquarters in 2015 (largely as a response to increased Russian aggression).
What is Poland or Romania?
500
This IGO organizes activities primarily related to development and economic cooperation on the continent of Africa.
What is the African Union?
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