Theories/ phenomena
This theory of international organizations assumes that the only actors that really matter are states.
What is Realism?
In this type of international system, no centralized authority exists and states are self-reliant.
What is anarchy?
This body of the UN has five permanent members and rotating members.
What is the UN Security Council?
These are the costs associated with coming to a cooperative agreement (ex. due diligence, determining terms).
What are transaction costs?
This occurs when someone delegates authority to another to act on their behalf. It is worse in international organizations than domestic politics because the causal chain is much longer.
What is the Principal-Agent Problem?
What is Collective Security?
The UN headquarters is in this city.
What is New York, New York?
This is the criteria or processes by which members of an institution determine who else is allowed to join.
What is a screening mechanism?
The phenomenon where a rising power challenges a dominant status quo power, increasing the chance of conflict.
What is the Thucydides Trap?
Article 17 of the ICC charter emphasizes this principle, which encourages states to prosecute certain crimes in their domestic courts.
What is the Complementarity Principle?
What is 6? Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish
This is when leaders make decisions at both domestic and international levels, these decisions can affect each other simultaneously.
What is a two-level game?
This is the idea that because future cooperation is at stake, actors have more incentive to cooperate.
What is the shadow of the future?
The IMF was established at this conference in 1944.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
The UN has this many articles.
What is 111?
This is a course of action where no actor has the unilateral incentive to deviate.
What is Nash equilibrium?
What is Mission Creep?
Together, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression make up these.
What are the core crimes of international law?
This Article of the UN Charter prohibits the use of force.
What is Article 2.4?
This is a situation in which the defensive/preparatory actions of one state are seen as offensive/threatening to another state.
What is a Security Dilemma?