Building Vocabulary 1 (RI)

The relationships among the world's state governments and the connection of those relationships with other actors (such as the United Nations, multinational corporations, and individuals), with other social relationships (including economics, culture, and domestic politics), and with geographic and historical influences.

• International Security

• International Relations (IR)

• Issue Areas

• Conflict and Cooperation

Distinct spheres of international activity (such as global trade negotiations) within which policy makers of various states face conflicts and sometimes achieve cooperation.

• International Political Economy (IPE)

• International Security

• Issue Areas

• Conflict and Cooperation

The types of actions that states take towards each other through time.

• State

• Power

• Conflict and Cooperation

• International System

The study of the politics of trade, monetary, and other economic relations among nations, and their connection to other transnational forces.

• International Political Economy (IPE)

• International Security

• United Nations (UN)

• Geopolitics

A sub-field of international relations (IR) that focuses on questions of war and peace.

• Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

• International System

• International Security

• International Political Economy (IPE)

An inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that exercises sovereignty on its territory.

• North-South gap

• State

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

• International system

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

An organization of nearly all world states, created after World War II to promote collective security.

• Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

• Nonstate Actors

• International System

• United Nations (UN)

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The set of relationships among the world's states, structured by certain rules and patterns of interaction.

• International System

• Geopolitics

• Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

• United Nations (UN)

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The size of a state's total annual economic activity.

• Cost-benefit Analysis

• International Political Economy (IPE)

• Deterrence

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Actors other than state governments that operate either below the level of the state (that is, within states) or across state borders.

• Norms (of behavior)

• North-South actors

• Nonstate Actors

• Rational Actors

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D