Introducing Global Politics Flashcards

Fill-in-the-blank practice flashcards covering introductory concepts in global politics, key theories, historical milestones, and non-state actors based on Chapter 1 notes.

A state is defined in global politics as a political institution that successfully claims __________ jurisdiction within defined territorial borders.

sovereign

According to Figure 1.1, the domain of global politics encompasses four overlapping levels: the worldwide, the regional, the subnational, and the __________.

international

The term 'international relations' was first coined by UK philosopher __________ in his 1789 work Principles of Morals and Legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

Under the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, a state must possess a defined territory, a permanent population, an effective government, and the __________.

capacity to enter into relations with other states

The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 brought an end to the __________ War and established sovereignty as the distinguishing feature of the state.

Thirty Years'

__________ sovereignty refers to the capacity of the state to act independently and autonomously on the world stage.

External

Sociologist Max Weber defined the state as the entity that holds the monopoly of the legitimate use of __________ within a given territory.

physical force

Scholar John Agnew (1994) described the state-centric assumption that states are clearly bounded containers of society as the '__________ trap'.

territorial

Keohane and Nye (1977) advanced the idea of '__________ interdependence' as an alternative to the realist model of international politics.

complex

Non-governmental organizations are commonly distinguished into operational NGOs and __________ NGOs.

advocacy

Globalization is defined as the emergence of a complex web of __________ that causes geographical distance and territorial borders to become less significant.

interconnectedness

In his 1990 book The Borderless World, hyperglobalist Kenichi Ohmae argued that globalization had caused __________ to effectively disappear.

national borders

The first wave of left-wing anti-globalization politics included a major demonstration in 1999 known as the 'Battle of Seattle' against the __________.

World Trade Organization

The __________ was established in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as a Global South alternative to the elite World Economic Forum.

World Social Forum

An extract from the Hereford 'Mappa Mundi' ($1280\text{ CE}$) represents an early European __________ imaginary including Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

global

IR scholar L. H. M. Ling developed '__________', or the theory of Multiple Worlds, as an alternative to Western-centric models of international relations.

worldism

In Leviathan (1651), English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes argued that life in the state of nature is violently selfish and '__________'.

nasty, brutish and short

German philosopher Immanuel Kant outlined a liberal perspective on global politics centered on a commitment to __________ and universal peace.

internationalism

Post-structuralist thinker Michel Foucault analyzed the link between power and knowledge through structured ways of representing the world called '__________'.

discourses

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center highlighted the vulnerability of national borders and shifted global security towards a renewed emphasis on __________ security.

national