Americas
Achieving aims through force
What is hard power?
What are air strikes?
When two states are equally powerful
What is bipolar?
Achieving goals through persuasion
What is soft power?
What is a military alliance?
Those who view states as the primary actors in the global system and the goal is to prioritize national interest above any other factors
Who are the realists?
Spread amongst a number of different global actors
What is diffused?
Seeking advantage over another actor
What is competition?
Those who view global politics as benefiting from states and other actors working together, following international law and respecting human rights
Who are realists?
What is smart power?
When one state is more powerful than all the others
What is unipolar?
What are IGOs?
When many states are powerful and compete with one another
What is multipolar?
What are IGOs?
The industries and services in a country owned and run by the government
What is the public sector?
What is democratic?
Relating to political principles and structures for ordering government and society
What is ideological?
The industries and services in a country that are owned and run by private companies as opposed to the government
What is the private sector?
Pertaining to more than one country
What is multinational?
When states attempt to expand their power due to a perceive advantage
What is offensive realism?
The set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and nations.
What is international law?
Between or involving governments of different countries
What is intergovernmental?
Official orders or laws stopping trade or communication with another state to attempt to force political changes
What are sanctions?
It serves as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations
What is international law?
Opinions or beliefs, often linked to a particular political system or culture?
What is an ideology?
Taxes on goods coming into or out of a country
What are tariffs?
The concept that development needs today should not put the development needs of future generations in danger
What is sustainable development?
Waters around the globe that are not part of a territorial sea or internal waters
What are international waters?
Relating to or existing as a single unit
What is unitary?
When an individual state´s decision to sign a treaty or convention has been legally approved
What is ratified?
The ability to influence or change behavior
What is power?
A written statement by a political party saying what the intend to do
What is a manifesto?
When groups in global politics rely on each other, have shared interests or have an impact on one another
What is interdependence?
A problem or question that deals with how power is distributed or operates in social organizations
What is a political issue?
When states are recognized as independent and sovereign by other states
What is external sovereignty?
The human science that deals with how power operates and is distributed in social organizations
What is politics?
The ability of a state to exert legitimate, independent control over its population and territory
What is internal sovereignty?
An institution that has the power to make or change laws
What is a legislature?
Refers to groups or actions that are considered to be acceptable usually by conforming to to agreed laws, traditions or principles
What is legitimacy?
The branch of government that interprets the law and judges whether individuals or governments are acting lawfully
What is the judiciary?