Climate Change and Transnational Policy

Question 1

Montreal Protocol

Answer 1

Treaty to protect ozone layer

Question 2

Paris agreement

Answer 2

International treaty on climate change

Question 3

International regime

Answer 3

Set of principles that international actors converge around

Question 4

Transnational advocacy networks

Answer 4

Cross-border forms of collective action

Question 5

INGO

Answer 5

International organization that is independent of government involvement

Question 6

Civil society

Answer 6

Third sector of society distinct from government, business.. including family anf private sphere.

Question 7

Epistemic community

Answer 7

Group with no specific history together

Question 8

Human security

Answer 8

Security of people and communities rather than the state

Question 9

International monetary system

Answer 9

Set of international agreed rules that facilitate international trade

Question 10

IMF vs World Bank

Answer 10

IMF is intended to maintain economic stability (advica and assistance)whilst the World Bank is in order to promote economic development (lending)

Question 11

Hegemonic stability theory

Answer 11

Hegemon will overpower other states in the international system

Question 12

Why did the Bretton Woods system come undone?

Answer 12

Politicians promoting their own interests over the interests of BW

Question 13

Keynesianism

Answer 13

Laws of supply and demand

Question 14

Laissez faire liberalism

Answer 14

Social movement where citizens control their lives as they see fit with no governmental interaction

Question 15

Embedded liberalism

Answer 15

Free trade with provision of welfare

Question 16

Neoliberalism

Answer 16

Favors free market, deregulation, and reduction in government spending

Question 17

Washington Consensus

Answer 17

Ten ‘standard’ policy prescriptions for developing countries

Question 18

Macroeconomic Policy Trilemma

Answer 18

Within each macroeconomic policy decision, you can only achieve two of these aspects (fixed exchange rates, domestic policy objectives, and free capital and trade flows)

Question 19

Globalization vs internationalization

Answer 19

Globalization is integration among nations that leads to a single market entity. Internationalization is the process of business crossing national borders.

Question 20

Domino theory

Answer 20

Democratization in one country tends to spread to neighboring countries

Question 21

Asymmetrical warfare

Answer 21

Irregular warfare between a formal military and undermanned but resilient opponents

Question 22

Dirty war

Answer 22

Unlawful acts (rape and torture) are used to gain a military/social advantage

Question 23

Old war vs new war

Answer 23

Old wars were fought because of ideology and political interests… new wars are fought on grounds of identity, ethnic group.

Question 24

Definition of genocide

Answer 24

A crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.

Question 25

Peacekeeping vs peacemaking

Answer 25

Peacekeeping is the act of preserving peace between hostile groups or states with a military force.. peacemaking is reconciling disagreement between groups

Question 26

Peacebuilding

Answer 26

Resloves injustice in nonviolent ways

Question 27

Collective security

Answer 27

The thought that ‘the security of one is the secutity of all’

Question 28

Responsibility to protect

Answer 28

Seeks to ensure that genocide (ethnic cleansing) never happens again

Question 29

Mogadishu effect

Answer 29

US withdrawl led extremists to murder more

Question 30

Naim

Answer 30

Governments need to change the ways they address drugs, arms, intellectual property, people, and money in order to ensure security by stomping down decentralized extremist groups.

Question 31

Kaldor

Answer 31

New war vs old war:

Question 32

Autesseere

Answer 32

Argues for a (more effective) localized focus for aid in Congo

Question 33

Holt-Ivory

Answer 33

The inclusion of women in peace talks will inprove odds of true peace.