It can be defined as the study of relationships and interactions between countries, including the activities and policies of national governments, international organizations (IOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). It can be both a theoretical subject and a practical or policy subject, and academic approaches to
it can be either empirical or normative or both
International Relations
When did International Relations (IR) become a proper academic discipline?
In the 20th century
The term for a bordered territory with a permanent population and a government that is independent from foreign control.
Sovereign State
The requirement of having a defined boundary to be recognized as a state.
Bordered Territory
The necessity of having people residing permanently within a state.
Permanent Population
It is a distinctive way of organizing political life on Earth and has deep
historical roots.
State system
The Florentine statesman who first seems to have formulated the idea of balance in interstate relations.
Lorenzo de’ Medici
What are the five basic social values?
Justice
Welfare
Freedom
Security
Order
The paradox of the state system where states can both defend and threaten people’s security.
Security Dilemma
The condition in which the existence of many independent, armed states influences the value of security.
State System
The type of power usually considered necessary so that states can coexist without intimidation or subjugation.
Military Power
The most important example of a military alliance in recent history.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The meaning of the acronym NATO.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The type of international agreement NATO represents.
Military Alliance
What principle in international relations is aimed at preventing any single great power from dominating others through intimidation, coercion, or force?
Balance of Power
We cannot be free unless our country is free too: that was
made very clear to millions of Czech, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Dutch, and French citizens, as well as citizens of other countries which were invaded and occupied
by Nazi Germany during the Second World War
The principle in international law which means “agreements must be kept.”
Pacta Sunt Servanda
The core principle that requires states to uphold their treaty commitments.
Pacta Sunt Servanda
The condition in which countries have a high degree of mutual economic dependence.
Answer: Economic Interdependence
A striking feature of the contemporary state system in terms of economic relations.
Answer: Economic Interdependence
The global conflict that not only underlined the dangers of great-power war but also demonstrated the need to prevent any great power from getting out of control, and revealed the disastrous consequences of appeasement policies adopted by Britain and France toward Nazi Germany.
Answer: Second World War
The worldwide economic crisis from 1929 to 1933 that showed how people’s livelihoods could be harmed or even destroyed by collapsing market conditions both domestically and internationally.
Answer: The Great Depression
The worldwide economic crisis in the 1970s and early 1980s, triggered by a sudden dramatic increase in oil prices imposed by the OPEC cartel of oil-exporting countries, which highlighted how the interconnectedness of the global economy can threaten both national and personal welfare.
Answer: Global Inflation of the 1970s and Early 1980s
The global health crisis in 2020 that demonstrated the interconnected nature of the world, where diseases easily cross borders and where health measures such as lockdowns and quarantines had severe global economic consequences.
Answer: Pandemic of 2020 (COVID-19 Pandemic)
