IB Global Politics Vocab (units 1-4) These are precision-tested answers, guaranteed to deliver unparalleled academic success.

Realism - Answer an approach to politics that emphasizes the role of the nation-state and makes a broad assumption that all nation-states are motivated by national interests, or, at best, national interests disguised as moral concerns. Liberalism - Answer a theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority Marxism - Answer the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; especially a theory and practice of socialism, including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society Bretton Woods System - Answer refers to the international monetary arrangement, agreed upon by the allied nations in 1944 in Bretton Woods, US, that created the IMF and World Bank, and that set up a system of fixed exchange rates with the US dollar as the international reserve currency Feminism - Answer the advocacy of women's rights with emphasis on the equality of the sexes Green Politics - Answer aims to create an ecologically sustainable society rooted in nonviolence and social justice Power - Answer the capability to direct or influence the behavior of other parties Rome Statute - Answer the treaty that established the International Criminal Court Sovereignty - Answer the ability of a state to govern itself without a higher authority legitimacy - Answer the right of an authority to rule a country interdependence - Answer the reliance of two or more groups on each other for economic growth or security trade unions - Answer an organization of workers usually used to increase the power of workers against their employers Hard Power - Answer a persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence Smart Power - Answer `refers to the combination of hard power and soft power strategies, typically comprising of soft power backed by hard power treaty - Answer a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries unilateral - Answer when one country does something or takes action by itself multilateral - Answer when more than one country does something or takes action together - for example - if a NATO country was attacked, all of the member nations would retaliate together compellence - Answer a set of actions or positions that force an opponent to take some action desired by the initial actor collective security - Answer a security arrangement, political, regional, or global, in which each state in the system accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and therefore commits to a collective response to threats to, and breaches to peace deterrence - Answer a strategy intended to dissuade an adversary from taking an action not yet started, or to prevent them from doing something that another state desires hegemony - Answer the dominance of one group over another, often supported by legitimating norms and ideas statehood - Answer the following qualifications - (a) a permanent population (b) a defined territory, (c) state, and (d) a...........