Essentials of International Relations notes

Describes how states cooperate and the problems associated with international cooperation. Explains the Kantian triangle of peace, and explains how the major motivating factor for international cooperation among states is self-interest. Defines relative gains and democracy.

Describes the characteristics of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGOs and NGOs), how each operates at the international and state levels, and compares how the three major theoretical perspectives (liberalism, realism, constructivism) view IGOs and NGOs.

Explains how history relates to the study of international relations and why it is important to study history in order to fully understand international relations. Identifies and explains significant historical events that have had a lasting impact on the field of international relations. Defines sovereignty, legitimacy, nationalism, the arms race, glasnost, and perestroika. Covers historical time periods from the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648 to the era after the Cold War.

Explains traditional peacekeeping and complex peacekeeping

Identifies the seven categories of human security and provides a definition/description for each: economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political. This document also explains human security issues and migration from the three main theoretical perspectives (realism, liberalism, constructivism). Describes noncommunicable diseases and identifies examples. Defines refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and economic migrants.

Provides descriptions and characteristics of liberalism, neoliberal institutionalism, and general characteristics of other liberal theories. Defines reciprocity principle, identity principle, complex interdependence, democratic peace, and commercial peace.

Describes national security, types of wars, characteristics of war, elements of terrorism, cyberwarfare, the causes of war, deterrence, jus ad bellum, and jus in bello. Defines war, interstate war, intrastate/civil war, terrorism, cyberwarfare, cyberspace, deterrence, jus ad bellum, and jus in bello.

Describes economic statecraft, use of force, and the models of foreign policy decision making: bureaucratic/organizational, pluralist, rational, and constructivist. Defines positive sanctions, negative sanctions, smart sanctions, compellence, deterrence, globalization, transnational movements, ethnonational movements, transnational crime, and fragile states.

Identifies each part of the United Nations: Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat, Economic and Social Council, and International Court of Justice. Describes characteristics of each part, including: the permanent and nonpermanent members of the Security Council, the abilities of each body, and the general areas (i.e. peace, security, etc) each body deals with.

Explains the basic concepts of human rights, the historical evolution of human rights, the roles that IGOs and NGOs play in human rights, the increase of women's rights as human rights, and Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Defines first-generation rights, second-generation rights, third-generation rights, and Responsibility to Protect.

Describes economic statecraft, use of force, and the models of foreign policy decision making: bureaucratic/organizational, pluralist, rational, and constructivist. Defines positive sanctions, negative sanctions, smart sanctions, compellence, deterrence, globalization, transnational movements, ethnonational movements, transnational crime, and fragile states.

Explains the international, state, and individual levels of system analysis. Defines and explains the parts of a system and how a system works. Explains multipolarity, bipolarity, and unipolarity. Provides arguments as for why each type of polarity (multipolar, bipolar, unipolar) should be the most stable. Explains change in the international system through the lenses of realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Explains state power. Defines system, tight bipolarity, loose bipolarity, power, natu...

Describes the characteristics of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGOs and NGOs), how each operates at the international and state levels, and compares how the three major theoretical perspectives (liberalism, realism, constructivism) view IGOs and NGOs.

Identifies the seven categories of human security and provides a definition/description for each: economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political. This document also explains human security issues and migration from the three main theoretical perspectives (realism, liberalism, constructivism). Describes noncommunicable diseases and identifies examples. Defines refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and economic migrants.

Explains the basic concepts of human rights, the historical evolution of human rights, the roles that IGOs and NGOs play in human rights, the increase of women's rights as human rights, and Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Defines first-generation rights, second-generation rights, third-generation rights, and Responsibility to Protect.

Explains how history relates to the study of international relations and why it is important to study history in order to fully understand international relations. Identifies and explains significant historical events that have had a lasting impact on the field of international relations. Defines sovereignty, legitimacy, nationalism, the arms race, glasnost, and perestroika. Covers historical time periods from the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648 to the era after the Cold War.

Describes national security, types of wars, characteristics of war, elements of terrorism, cyberwarfare, the causes of war, deterrence, jus ad bellum, and jus in bello. Defines war, interstate war, intrastate/civil war, terrorism, cyberwarfare, cyberspace, deterrence, jus ad bellum, and jus in bello.

Describes how states cooperate and the problems associated with international cooperation. Explains the Kantian triangle of peace, and explains how the major motivating factor for international cooperation among states is self-interest. Defines relative gains and democracy.

Identifies each part of the United Nations: Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat, Economic and Social Council, and International Court of Justice. Describes characteristics of each part, including: the permanent and nonpermanent members of the Security Council, the abilities of each body, and the general areas (i.e. peace, security, etc) each body deals with.

Provides descriptions and characteristics of liberalism, neoliberal institutionalism, and general characteristics of other liberal theories. Defines reciprocity principle, identity principle, complex interdependence, democratic peace, and commercial peace.