IPE I
Taxes that governments impose on imported foreign goods
What are Tariffs?
Tangible goods which can be bought or sold
What are Commodities?
The two phases of International Law
What are Commitment and Compliance?
The three key parts of the NPT
What are Non-proliferation, Disarmament "in good faith", and the "Central bargain"?
Keohane and Nye (2000)
- Increased Density of Networks
- Increased Institutional Velocity
- Increased Transnational Participation
A Fixed Exchange Rate
A Floating Exchange Rate
What is when governments do not maintain a set value for their currency in relation to a precious metal or another state's currency?
To Prevent an adversary from taking an action
What is Deterrence?
To Make an adversary stop an already occurring action
What is Compellence?
Homer-Dixon et al. (1993)
- People can reduce quantity or degrade quality of resources faster than they are renewed
- Population growth
- Unequal resource access
The 3 Challenges to the global capitalist economy
What are Rising economic inequality, U.S.-China great power competition, and the Energy consequences of a worsening climate crisis?
What are Mercantilism, Liberalism, and Marxism?
The Tragedy of the Commons
What is when individuals - acting in their own short-term self-interest – deplete a limited shared resource even though it is not in the collective, long-term interest?
(Individual Actions --> Collective Costs)
The definition of Terrorism
What is the use or threatened use of violence by non-state actors against innocent civilians to advance political aims, often through fear inducement?
Tannenwald (2018)
A nuclear taboo is a normative inhibition against first use of nuclear weapons
- The taboo has made it impossible to view nuclear weapons as "just another weapon"
- The taboo has reinforced mutual deterrence between nuclear powers
- The taboo has undermined deterrence between nuclear and nonnuclear states
State-Promoted Illicit Globalization
What are Illicit trade, Illicit transfer, and Illicit finance?
The three inhibitors to monetary cooperation
What are Complexity, Adjustment, and Ambiguity?
The Collective Action Problem
What is when individuals – as a collective – would all benefit from a certain action, but that action has an associated cost that self-interested individuals do not want to personally pay?
(Individual Inactions --> Collective Costs)
The 4 Options for U.S. Grand Strategy
What are Restraint, Deep Engagement, Liberal Internationalism, and Conservative Primacy?
Keck and Sikkink (1998)
"A transnational advocacy network includes those actors working internationally on an issue, who are bound together by shared values, a common discourse, and dense exchanges of information and services."
- Information politics
- Symbolic politics
- Leverage politics
- Accountability politics
Hegemonic Stability Theory (HST)
What argues that the global economy will be open and stable when a hegemon exists to lead it?
Provides public goods, Lowers free riding, Funds economic institutions
The 4 Issue Areas of IPE
What are International trade system, International monetary system, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), and Economic Development?
The Boomerang Pattern
What is the phenomenon where:
-A domestic NGO is unable to access its government
-It reaches out to external NGOs to pressure from outside
-These NGOs amplify the demands through states and/or IOs?
The definition of Grand Strategy
What is Long-term in scope, Related to a state's highest priorities, and Concerned with all spheres of statecraft: Military, Diplomatic, Economic?
Evans and Sahnoun (2002)
- Just cause
- Right intention
- Last resort
- Proportional means
- Reasonable prospects
- Right authority