This theory, or worldview, posits that world politics is best understood through the prism of intersubjective human action and the socially constructed nature of political life.
What is constructivism?
100
When a state views the defensive actions of another state as threatening, causing them to take their own defensive actions so that every states’ security declines.
What is a security dilemma?
100
This 15-member decision-making body within the U.N. may pass binding resolutions and initiate actions, including the use of force.
What is the Security Council?
100
This Russian leader appears to exert unique influence on the international system as an individual, working to disrupt the post-WWII, US-shaped world order.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
This is a preponderant state capable of dominating the conduct of international political and economic relations (and is, coincidentally, one of Lt Col Brothers' favorite terms).
What is a hegemon?
200
This decision-making model is described as a "purposeful, goal-directed behavior" that includes weighing "all possible costs and benefits from a self-interested perspective."
What is the rational choice model?
200
At the state level of analysis, this mindset which glorifies a particular state and the nationality group living within it, may have created a climate that made war likely prior to both WWI and WWII.
What is nationalism?
200
This regional IGO has grown in scope and in membership from its roots as a single-purpose economic actor, to a multipurpose actor, and is now one of the strongest and most influential economically and politically.
What is the European Union?
200
An influential individual in the Syrian War, this man is president of Syria.
Who is Bashar al-Assad?
200
This theory or worldview emphasizes ethics over the pursuit of power and institutions over military capabilities (yet still recognizes that conflict may occur).
What is liberalism?
300
This level of analysis may involve such things as economic power, demographics, military spending, or resources.
What is the state level?
300
This theory demonstrates a pattern of the past five centuries, or so, that focuses on the rise and fall of a leading global power (or powers) as the central process of the modern world system.
What is long-cycle theory?
300
Many states, operating from a realist perspective, share concern about the erosion of this, due to increasing international engagement of IGOs, NGOs, and other non-state actors in the international system.
What is sovereignty?
300
This American President attempted to re-shape his advisory group decision-making model to avoid the pitfalls of group-think, following a disastrous foreign policy decision.
Who is President Kennedy (following the Bay of Pigs)?
300
If this multi-national corporation was a country, its revenues would make it on par with the GDP of the 25th largest economy in the world by surpassing 157 smaller countries, demonstrating the unique power that certain non-state actors now wield.
What is Wal-Mart?
400
This theory posits that democracies rarely fight one another.
What is the democratic peace theory?
400
This type of conflict involves engagement of both terrorist networks and conventional military forces.
What is asymmetric warfare?
400
This non-state actor type has private individuals as members and advocates for an issue, cause, or policy at the international level.
What is an NGO?
400
This former Soviet leader advocated "new thinking" and supported such policies as 'glasnost' and 'perestroika' which lead to a period of democratization in what was soon to be the former Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
This is a system of government where religious institutions and the state are tightly interlinked.
What is a theocracy?
500
This term describes the current international system of independent global actors, operating on principles of self-help, without one, overarching government.
What is anarchy / anarchical
500
This type of polarity in the international system is considered least stable and is used to describe the global distribution of power prior to WWII.
What is multi-polar?
500
This terrorist NGO/non-state actor is primarily active in Nigeria, actively supports the establishment of an Islamic state in Nigeria, opposes Westernization, and is notorious for their kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls.
What is Boko Haram?
500
This German philosopher was a critic of the capitalist status quo, as well as the elite ruling class.
Who is Karl Marx?
500
This theory or concept, advanced by Samuel Huntington in the late 1990's, speculates that future global war is likely to occur due to the confluence of separate "transnational cultural identities."