IR Studies
The history of IR study is relatively...
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The idea that self-interest is not always someone's best option, as presented in the example of a prisoner being interrogated.
This is the worldwide police and regulatory force that manages transnational crimes.
What is Interpol?
This treaty in 1648 created the basis of the theory of international relations.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
Who is Immanuel Wallerstein?
What is the security dilemma?
This person came up with the idea of "Just War"
Who is Hugo Grotius?
This is the term for a group of people whose culture expands across multiple countries.
What is a multi-state nation?
This is the sports-based exchange of ideas between the United States and China in the late 1900s.
What is Ping Pong Diplomacy?
This person founded Classical Realism, arguing that state behaviors are driven by human nature and self-interests.
Who is Hans Morgenthau?
These two people founded the competing ideas of offensive and defensive realism.
This person is the father of Liberalism, arguing that society is anarchic and that the anarchy can be controlled through cooperation.
Who is Joseph Nye?
The use of economic tools and strategies by states to achieve foreign policy objectives and influence behavior of other nations. Hint: Limited, Comprehensive, Collective, Smart
What is Economic Statecraft?
These are the two prevailing agreements that arose in the late 1900s. One argued for democracy, while the other argued for communism and big government.
What are the Washington and Beijing Consensus?
This person created the Democratic Peace Theory, arguing that democratic countries should not go to war with each other.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
These are the four basic elements of a state.
What are Population, Government, Territory, and Sovereignty?
Who are the Paddack Brothers?
What is Collective Security?
The conference between countries that created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
Who is Amartya Sen?
These are the "New 4" nuclear states.
What are Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea?
The audience (citizens) have an active role to play by coming up with their own interpretation of ideas instead of just listening to the media.
What is the social action theory?
The country used as the prime example of a country that is proactive and able to build infrastructure against pandemics.
What is Singapore?
The predecessor to the Paris Climate Accords; The Global North developed binding goals for climate change, but a lack of inclusiveness because only industrialized countries were involved.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
What is the Spiral of Silence theory?