International Law
The principle that countries have the right to travel by sea to other countries and to trade with them; each state's sovereignty ends with its territorial waters.
What is freedom of the seas?
A tax or financial charge imposed on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
Long-term policies and specific short-term measures to prevent and combat international and domestic terrorism.
What is counterterrorism?
The view that the environment should be preserved and cherished rather than exploited.
What are harmony values?
Relocation within or across state borders due to violence, hardship, severe suffering, or a significant threat of these situations.
What is involuntary migration?
Law derived from the past practices of sovereign states in the absence of repeated objections from other states.
What is customary law?
The belief and theory that only free markets, free trade, and economic cooperation can lead to a peaceful and prosperous world.
A security threat involving deliberate targeting of computers and networks of sovereign states, IGOs, and NGOs to achieve military, political, or other strategic and tactical goals.
What is cyberwarfare?
A comprehensive policy that meets the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
What is sustainable development?
An outbreak of an infectious disease in a large population.
What is an epidemic?
The legal permission to administer a territory or enforce international law.
What is an international mandate?
A long-term policy of national self-sufficiency and rejection of imports, economic aid, and cooperation.
What is autarky?
Robots programmed to destroy and kill.
What are autonomous weapons?
Geographical areas not under any nation's sovereign control.
What are global commons?
The position that human beings, regardless of their origin and social status, are morally responsible for helping those who suffer.
What is the humanitarian tradition?
The principle that the perpetrators of certain crimes cannot escape justice by moving to another country and invoking its sovereign immunity.
What is universal jurisdiction?
The use of government spending or revenue collection to influence the economy, push it out of recession, or create jobs.
What is fiscal policy?
The use of force and threats of force to compel others to comply with demands.
What is coercion and extortion?
A field aimed at developing technological solutions to environmental problems.
What is geoengineering?
Military or non-military intervention to stop violence and to create the conditions for lasting peace.
What is peacekeeping?
What is extraterritoriality?
A theory that explains why countries benefit from trading with each other instead of relying on domestic production.
What is comparative advantage?
Actions taken against terrorists before they strike.
What are preemptive policies?
Actions and policies of the global North that sustain the contamination and depletion of the environment in the global South.
What is environmental discrimination?
The global cooperation of international actors with little or no power of enforcing compliance.
What is global governance?