IR Theory Chart
This is the primary goal of a Realist.
What is power?
This word describes unmatched dominance in a system or region.
What is Hegemony?
According to Thucydides, this made the Peloponnesian War inevitable.
What was the rising power of Athens and the fear it inspired in Sparta?
The pillars of this system were responsible for establishing 99 years of European peace.
What is the Vienna System?
This is the year the Cold War ended.
What is 1989?
This is the favorite policy tool of a Neo-Con.
What is forcibly expanding democracy?
He led the abolitionist and anti-slave trade movement in Great Britain.
Who was William Wilberforce?
This game theory term describes the inability of two actors to cooperate for a greater goal; therefore forcing them to accept a lesser solution.
What is the Prinsoner's Dilemma?
When considering the causes of conflict in an international system, these are the three levels of analysis.
What are the man, the state, and the system?
This was the year of the July Crisis.
What is 1914?
This was the Great U.S. Leader for the Neo-Con Theory.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
These two acronyms outline the institutions that control the rules and regulations of international trade.
What is the GATT/WTO?
raison d'etat was first put into practice during this war.
What is the Thirty Years War.
These are two of the many ways that the British Empire managed to win the hearts and minds of the local population of India.
What are co-opting previously established power systems and seeking to understand local culture?
These were the years that Josef Stalin was in power.
What is 1924 to 1953?
These are the methods that a Liberal Internationalist would use to deal with genocide.
What are international agreements and/or peacekeeping against genocide?
This treaty outlined a plan to decrease/limit greenhouse gas emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
This character is Rudyard Kipling's Kim was the chaplain in Kim's father's regiment, the Irish Mavericks.
Who was Father Victor?
These are the three ways that Liberal IR Theorists believe institutions can facilitate cooperation.
What is sharing information, reducing transaction costs, and establishing legal liability frameworks?
These were the years of the Versailles System.
What is 1919 to 1939?
This person's works became the philosophical root for Constructivism.
Who is Foucault?
This is the name for the international monetary system established in 1944. This pegged all currencies to the dollar and the dollar to gold.
What is the Bretton Woods system?
This is the phrase used to describe the five methods that terrorists use to achieve political or ideological ends.
What are the Strategic Logics of Terrorism?
This is one of the many reasons that CIA Director Allen Dulles kept a copy of Kim by his bedside.
What is the cyclical nature of IR and the impending conflict the US was about to face with the Soviet Union?
This was the year the British abolished the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is 1807?