McGill History
12 laureates who have received this prize are McGill alumni.
What is the Nobel Prize?
Collective efforts by groups of individuals to bring about change through sustained mobilization and activism.
What are social movements?
Canada’s political system is modelled after this country’s parliamentary tradition.
What is the United Kingdom?
This theory views international politics as an anarchic system where states seek power and security.
What is realism?
This work is considered the single-most important in the Western political theory tradition.
What is Plato’s Republic?
McGill University is located in this Montreal neighbourhood.
What is Milton-Parc?
This concept describes the transformation of a state from authoritarian rule to a democratic system.
What is democratization?
The head of state in Canada is represented domestically by this official
What is the Governor General?
The term anarchy refers to the absence of this authority in the international system.
What is a central / overarching authority / government?
According to John Locke, governments derive their legitimacy from this collective agreement.
What is the social contract?
This building is the oldest at McGill.
What is the Arts building?
The consequences of this practice are still shaping countries’ development and international dynamics today.
What is colonialism?
Canada’s system of responsible government means that the executive must maintain this to stay in power.
What is the confidence of the House of Commons?
This IR theory argues that ideas, norms, and identities are socially constructed and shape state behaviour.
What is constructivism?
In the context of state formation, this German sociologist defined the state as holding a “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”
Who is Max Weber?
This McGill building was built entirely without iron and steel.
What is the MacDonald Physics Building / Schulich Library of Science and Engineering?
This sector of society is distinct from government and business, including a wide range of non-governmental organizations and groups formed by citizens.
What is civil society?
This document enshrined the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What is the Constitution Act, 1982?
This concept describes a situation where states sacrifice short-term gains to achieve collective long-term benefits.
What is cooperation (or the iterated prisoner’s dilemma outcome)?
This concept describes the condition before political society, characterized by equality, insecurity and “war of all against all.”
What is the state of nature?
156 McGill students and former students have competed in this international event since 1900.
What are the Olympic Games?
A political system that maintains formal democratic institutions like elections but routinely undermines them through repression, manipulation, and limited competition.
What is competitive authoritarianism?
Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is commonly known by this clause name.
What is the notwithstanding clause?
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia is considered the origin of this key international principle.
What is state sovereignty?
According to this philosopher, humans are by nature “political animals” because they can deliberate about justice and live within this type of community.
What is the polis / city?