FOUNDATIONS OF POWER
This type of power is the ability to influence others through attraction rather than coercion.
What is soft power?
This perspective argues that humans are self-interested and that states pursue survival and security in an anarchic system.
What is realism?
According to the Montevideo Convention, states must have four elements. One of them is a clearly defined area.
What is a defined territory?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars
This organization has 193 recognized member states.
What is the United Nations
In your introductory lessons, we defined power as the ability to affect change or to make others do something they otherwise wouldn’t. This is the term for the ability to act independently without constraint.
What is agency
This perspective claims that cooperation is possible through institutions and norms that structure the international system.
What is Liberalism?
This theory says a state exists if it meets four objective criteria, regardless of who recognizes it.
What is the Declarative Theory of Statehood?
This athlete holds the record as the fastest sprinter in history.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This conflict has shown the world how economic and cultural sanctions can operate as blended forms of power.
What is the Russia–Ukraine war?
According to our power typology, this form of power blends economic sanctions with cultural or social pressure, as seen in global responses to Russia in 2022.
What is smart power
This perspective argues that ideas, identities, and language shape global politics more than material power alone.
What is constructivism?
When a state is recognized by “enough” other states, especially powerful ones, it meets this theory.
What is the Constitutive Theory of Statehood?
This line of latitude marks the point farthest north where the sun can be directly overhead.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This term describes actors such as NGOs, TNCs, and armed groups that influence global politics without being states.
What are non-state actors?
This theoretical idea proposes that all power operates within relationships and is not simply held by one actor.
What is relational power?
What is the feminist critique of the private–public divide?
What is realism?
This form of sovereignty refers to the supreme authority a state exercises within its borders.
What is internal sovereignty?
This sport’s World Cup is played every four years and is governed by the IRB.
What is rugby?
Crimea’s annexation raised global concerns about the violation of this foundational principle of the international system.
What is territorial integrity? (or: What is sovereignty?)
This concept describes when actors lack the capacity to meaningfully participate in decisions that affect them, often due to unequal structures.
What is powerlessness or structural powerlessness?
This feminist idea argues that states rely on unacknowledged gendered labour, such as caregiving for veterans, to maintain legitimacy.
What is the feminist critique of the private–public divide?
This form of sovereignty is compromised when outside forces exert control over a state's decision-making, even without direct occupation.
What is external sovereignty?
This Asian mountain range includes all fourteen of the world’s peaks over 8,000 meters.
What are the Himalayas?
This political concept describes how authority ultimately derives from the people rather than rulers.
What is popular sovereignty