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🏴‍☠️Intro to International Relations
Key Terms

258 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to International Relations exam

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A

Ad hoc tribunals
Advisory opinions
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
African Union (AU)
AIPAC
ALBA
Aleatory uncertainty
Alexander Wendt
Algorithmic bias
Alter-globalization
American Hegemony Post-WWII
Anti-dumping duties
Antiterrorism treaties
Arab League
ASEAN Economic Community
Asian Tigers

B

Bandung Conference
BRICS Nations
Brownfield investment
Budapest Convention on Cybercrime

C

Cap-and-trade
Capacity building
Capital mobility
Carbon pricing
Carl von Clausewitz
Challenger States
Charles Kindleberger
Clash of Civilizations
Climate adaptation
Climate change governance
Climate change impacts
Climate justice
Climate mitigation
Collective Identity
Common Agricultural Policy
Common European Asylum System
Common foreign and security policy
Complementarity principle
Complex Interdependence Theory
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Compulsory Jurisdiction
Consent of the parties
Constructivism vs. Liberalism
Constructivist Critique
Copenhagen Criteria
Credentials presentation
Crimes against humanity
Cross-strait relations
Cultural exports
Cybersecurity governance

D

Defensive Realism
Digital diplomacy
Digital rights
Digital Sovereignty
Diplomatic immunity
Diplomatic language
Diplomatic protocol
Disputed Territories
Diversionary war theory
Dominant Narratives
Dominant State
Drone warfare

E

Ecological modernization
Economic Community of West African States
Economic disparities
Economic resources
Economic vulnerability
End of History Thesis
Environmental Justice
Environmental NGOs
Environmental Refugees
Environmental security
Epistemic uncertainty
Erga omnes obligations
EU Expansion