Birth of the International System
Wars, Alliances & Institutions
Thinkers & Theories
Power & World Order
Security & Global Challenges
100

This 1648 settlement is traditionally associated with Sovereignty, Territoriality and Legal Equality between States.

What is the Peace of Westphalia?

100

This World War I alliance included Britain, France and Russia.

What is the Triple Entente?

100

This Greek Historian, General, Scholar and thinker who is known as the "Father of Political Realism" and authored the work "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

Who is Thucydides?

100

This element of national power includes location, territory, natural barriers and strategic position.

What is Geography?

100

This category includes nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons.

What are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)?

200

This 1789 event saw members of the Third Estate pledge not to separate, quit, leave or dissolve until France had a drafted a Constitution.

What is the Tennis Court Oath?

200

This individual's assassination in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo became the immediate trigger for the start of World War I.

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria?

200

This work by Italian Diplomat, Philosopher and Historian Niccolò Machiavelli argues that rulers must prioritize power, security and survival. 

What is The Prince?

200

This concept of attracting and persuading through culture, values and diplomacy was developed by Joseph Nye. 

What is Soft Power?

200

This international agreement adopted in 2015 is specifically associated with limiting global warming.

What is the Paris Agreement?

300

This principle was formulated at the Congress of Vienna, which aimed to prevent any single European power from dominating the Continent.

What is Balance of Power?

300

This organization was created in the aftermath of World War I with one of it's central purposes being concerned with Collective Security.

What is the League of Nations?

300

This thinker argued for Republican government, international law and a federation of states in his work Perpetual Peace? 

Who is Immanuel Kant?

300

This type of power is established when a State combines military coercion with cultural attraction and diplomacy. 

What is Smart Power?

300

This treaty established safeguards and inspections through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as part of the international nuclear non-proliferation framework.

What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?

400

The Congress of Vienna followed Napoleon's defeat and was guided by three named principles. Name the principle that rewarded States territorially that had helped defeat Napoleon.

What is the Principle of Compensation?

400

This specific 1915 treaty secretly promised Italy territorial gains in exchange for joining the Allied Powers.

What is the Treaty of London?

400

This thinker argued for natural law, just war, freedom of the seas and respect for treaties, earning the title “Father of International law”.

Who is Hugo Grotius?

400

Sanctions, trade restrictions and technological competition are examples of this specific concept when it is used to pursue geopolitical objectives?

What is Geo-economics?

400

This Country is associated with UNPROFOR in the course of UN's discussion of second-generation peacekeeping?

Where is Yugoslavia?

500

These two cities was, where the treaties which established the "Peace of Westphalia", was signed in.  

Where is Münster and Osnabrück ?

500

These two Cold War events began when the Soviet Union cut land access to West Berlin and the Western powers responded to it by supplying the city by air.

What is the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift?

500

Of all the number of debates held within International Relations, the _ IR debate opposed Idealism and Realism and became especially significant after the outbreak of the Second World War.

What was The First Great Debate?

500

This concept describes multiple centres of authority that may include states, international organisations and non-state actors.

What is Polycentricity?

500

These three agreements from the Cold War/post-Cold War are examples of major arms-control or disarmament efforts involving the United States and Soviet Union/Russia?

What are the SALT, START and New START Agreements?