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First Half Potpourri
100
This theory proposes that economies work best when free of government involvement.
What is liberalism?
100
This approach focuses on noncompetitive and cooperative means of preventing the threat of war.
What is common/cooperative security?
100
Historically, terrorism was a term describing violence inflicted against citizens by these.
What are states/governments?
100
These are interrelated, mutually-sustaining communities of plants, animals, and microbes that supply the necessities of life for all living things.
What are ecologies?
100
Not only an authoritarian government, this term also describes a coherent body of governing principles.
What is a regime?
200
This approach to IPE - greatly disliked by economic liberals - approves of protectionism, including measures such as nurturing "infant industries" and strengthening them in the face of international competition.
What is mercantilism?
200
Structural realists predicted what would result from the end of the Cold War and its bipolar structure?
What is war, war, and more war?
200
Although not usually conceived of as such, the American Revolution is one of these; as are Vietnam's war against the French and the U.S., Algeria's war against the French, and Angola's war against the Portuguese.
What are wars of national liberation?
200
This measurement estimates the area of productive land and water required to sustain a population at its current rate of resource use.
What is an ecological footprint?
200
The book (incorrectly) mentions this as "the" critique of international law.
What is the "Western" provenance of international law?
300
The IMF and World Bank are collectively known as this.
What are the Bretton Woods institutions?
300
This is a regional group of countries sharing the same guiding philosophical ideals, principles, norms, and ethics.
What is a security community?
300
For perhaps most (though not all) people, this is the defining feature of terrorism.
What is the targeting of noncombatants/civilians?
300
This form of development can be continued indefinitely into the future without catastrophic collapse.
What is sustainable development?
300
Not to be confused with an organization, this is a set of widely shared norms that influences interstate action.
What is an institution?
400
In World Systems Theory, this is the zone from which raw materials are extracted and shipped elsewhere for processing and high-value-added manufacturing.
What is the periphery?
400
This term, introduced by President Eisenhower, refers to the dangerous power of the weapons industry and the military over the government.
What is the military-industrial complex?
400
This is a homemade bomb or explosive booby trap, often planted around roadways.
What is an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)?
400
This is the sharing of the most advanced skills, knowledge, manufacturing methods, and technology - and it is one of the demands of developing countries in exchange for agreeing to reduce carbon emissions.
What is technology transfer?
400
Introduced by David Ricardo, this theory is used by liberals to argue for laissez faire economic policies and against trade barriers.
What is comparative advantage theory?
500
This is one powerful, industrialized nation that applied the principles of economic liberalism throughout its developmental history.
TRICK QUESTION
500
This country accounts for nearly half of both weapons purchases and sales worldwide.
What is the United States?
500
This European terrorist/freedom-fighter group used the tactic of calling the media to warn of bombings ahead of time, to ensure massive financial damage while eliminating risks to human lives.
What is the Irish Republican Army (IRA)?
500
Producing an even greater warming effect than carbon, this greenhouse gas is predicted by scientists to be released into the atmosphere in massive amounts from formerly-frozen parts of the planet, intensifying climate change and producing even more catastrophic effects.
What is methane?
500
Far from Adam Smith's ideas about capitalism, in this modern form of economy small businesses and consumers are dominated by large corporations.
What is monopoly capitalism?