Challenges
This lack of central authority can lead to conflict (or cooperation) in international relations.
What is ANARCHY?
This trade agreement among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada was replaced this year by the USMCA.
What is NAFTA?
This level of analysis is concerned with anarchy, interdependence, and globalization.
What is SYSTEMIC?
This type of balancing is characterized by the formation of alliances with other states.
What is EXTERNAL?
Our pandemic practices of wearing masks and social distancing are new examples of these.
What are NORMS?
What is DIVERSITY?
Because each country gets a vote, this plenary body of the UN offers small countries important diplomatic opportunities.
The United States does not want any state to acquire nuclear weapons because that would upset the global balance of power.
What is SYSTEMIC?
This strategy is characterized by an independent foreign policy and lack of alliances.
What is NEUTRALITY?
Highways, national security, and water fountains are all examples of this.
What are PUBLIC GOODS?
I see my neighboring country acquiring more weapons, so I buy more weapons to defend myself, but then my neighbor buys even more weapons.
What is the SECURITY DILEMMA?
This IO serves as a source of emergency lending and an exchange rate regime.
What is the IMF?
Data shows that coronavirus transmission rates are lower in countries with female executives.
What is INDIVIDUAL?
States test the waters by carefully moving away from the hegemon and developing an independent foreign policy.
What is LEASH SLIPPING?
R2P challenges this norm that states have supreme authority over their people and territory.
What is SOVEREIGNTY?
The idea that world politics is a "multilevel game of chess," with various players, levels, motives, and linkages.
What is COMPLEXITY?
This judicial branch of the European Union is widely regarded as the most powerful and successful international court.
What is the ECJ?
Concerned about the presence of aggressive, authoritarian regimes, the U.S. pursued foreign imposed regime change.
What is STATE/NATIONAL?
This form of balancing attempts to impede the target's ability to profit from bad behavior or delegitimate the target in the eyes of third parties.
What is SOFT BALANCING?
You and I share an enemy. I have 10 aircraft carriers and you have 0. I don't want you to obtain a carrier of your own, because I believe power is this.
What is ZERO-SUM?
I know cooperation will make everyone better off, but since I can't trust others to cooperate, it's in my interest to defect.
What is the PRISONER'S DILEMMA?
The World Trade Organization promotes trade liberalization through this status ensuring each other the best trade terms.
What is MFN?
Leaders' beliefs about the danger of nuclear weapons determines whether their country is likely to launch preventive attacks on would-be nuclear states.
What is INDIVIDUAL?
Foreign leaders cozy up to the POTUS to try to influence the hegemon.
What is BONDING?
This union of ends-ways-means has led to the U.S. foreign policies of "liberal hegemony" and "isolationism."
What is GRAND STRATEGY?