final study guide

1 - Game Theory

2. Deterrence

3. Credibility

4. Normal form games

5. Zero-sum game

6. Prisoners' Dilemma

7. Extensive form games

8. Decision nodes

9. Backwards induction

10. Commitment device

11. Dominant strategy

12. Nash equilibrium

13. Korean War & Berlin Airlift

14. Security dilemma

15. Uncertainty

16. Human Security 

17. Cold War (could be a useful example for many possible essay questions)

18. Anarchy

19.  Power/Security

20. Hegemon

21. System Structure (e.g., types of polarity)

22.  9-dash line

23. South China Sea

24. Monroe Doctrine

25. Manifest Destiny

26. Terrorism

27. Lone wolf terrorism 

28. Kenneth Waltz

29. Scott Sagan

30. Ethnic War 

31. Definitions of ethnic conflict & views on ethnicity 

32. Socially constructed

33. Primordial

34. Instrumental

35. Transnational Organized Crime 

36. Counterinsurgency

37. The Impossible Trilemma of Counterinsurgency

38.  Rwanda Genocide

39. Hutus

40. Tutsis

41. Former Yugoslavia -- Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo 

42. A Revolution in Warfare by Cohen

43. Vladimir Putin

44. Rishi Sunak

45. Volodymyr Zelenskyy 

46. Benjamin Netenyahu

47. Lula 

48. Xi Jinping

49. Donald Trump

50. Narendra Modi

51. Emmanuel Macron

52. Leader of Germany

53. Force protection

54. Boko Haram

55. Osama Bin Laden

56. Ethnic outbidding

57. Scapegoating in IR

58. Slobodan Milosevic