Liberals argue that even though there is anarchy states are still able to meet common goals through multilateral actions, also known as...
What is cooperation?
100
National interest, defined as state survival, is one of the key tenets of this approach to security.
What is realism?
100
Realists believe all security is defined by this international system characteristic of no world government.
What is anarchy?
100
The indirect tensions between the United States and Soviet Union, which shaped the world for 50 years is commonly referred to as...
What is the Cold War?
100
If I were focused on statism, survival and self-help, I would be...
What is a realist?
200
This is the systemic system considered most stable by realists because it forms two major and dueling forces that counter one another.
What is balance of power?
200
Absolute gains features prominently into this theory's understanding of how states approach power.
What is liberalism?
200
This security term, often approached as a Prisoner's Dilemma Game, explain why states engage in arms races to ensure their own security.
What is the security dilemma?
200
These wars became the most common form of war after the Cold War.
What are civil wars?
200
If I were focused on masculinity and how it undermines practices and discourses of security I would be a...
What is a feminist?
300
Probably the best example of a security community, in which economies and identities have become more integrated, is this.
What is the European Union?
300
Anarchy is what states make of it.
What is constructivism?
300
This event marked a key turning point in security concerns for the United States and the world, in which non-state actors emerged as important security threats.
What is 9/11?
300
The initiation of this war was justified by the re-defining of threat as it relates to security.
What is the Iraq War?
300
If I were a scholars focusing on coordination and cooperation of security activities, I would be a...
What is a liberal?
400
When the United States is worried about their military build-up as compared to China's military build-up, it is called.
What is relative gains?
400
Security privileges a state-centric approach which masks the everyday realities of conflict, including the disproportional effects security has on marginalized groups.
What is feminism?
400
In order to ensure one's survival, states seek to increase these, which is a state's best measure for security.
What are military capabilities?
400
This war was the first multilateral and Security Council approved action after the Cold War.
What is the First Gulf War?
400
If I were a scholar that focused on the importance of shared knowledge and practices and their effects on the international system, I would be a...
What is a constructivist?
500
The name for security that begins with the individual, rather than the state is.
What is human security?
500
The dominant security discourse, realism, actually produces competition between states by focusing on a narrow definition of security and power which actually legitimates and promotes war.
What is poststructuralism?
500
The emergence of a global economic system, global communications and elements of a global culture are, for some scholars, evidence of this emerging approach to security, which emphasizes the effects of globalization.
What is global society?
500
This event fundamentally re-shaped the world system with the United States emerging as the hegemon.
What is the end of the Cold War?
500
If I were a scholars who focused on a bottom-up approach to security which used narratives and literature to understand how everyday people approached security I would be a...