CHAPTER 6 (international politics)

supranational

large institutions and groupings such as the European Union to which states authroity or national identity is sobordinated

neofunctionalism

a theory that holds that economic intergration (functionalism) generates a “spillover” effect, resulting in increased politcal integration

International Committee of the Red Cross

(ICRC) a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that provides practical support, such as medical care, food, and letters from home, to civilians caught in wars and to prisoners of war (POWs). Exchange of POW’s are usually negotiated through the ICRC

just wars 

a category in international law and political theory that defines when wars can be justly started (jus and bellum) and how thet can be justly fought (jus in bello)