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This is an Educational Resource. The 'Glossary of Basic Terms in International Relations' is culled out from the self-learning materials (textbooks) developed for the Undergraduate Courses of Political Science at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, India.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n
This glossary is not exhaustive but provides the simple meaning of a select few terms about international relations, which would be a quick and ready reference for learners or general readers.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n
As an OER practitioner, I would like to contribute this asset in OE Week 2024.<\/span><\/h2>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"8921d3ef-48a3-4304-aa82-8f6cafc8aaff"},"useSeparator":"auto"},{"content":{"params":{"panels":[{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Nation-states have absolute right in their domestic as well as external matters<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"9508b38b-1bce-47b5-8b2e-a5c27807c9e3","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Absolute Sovereignty"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The term 'Actor' in inernational relations denotes a person or entity with the capacity of having an impact in international relations.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"0d3d3669-a550-4328-b6c2-19eb5c94174b","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Actor"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Military invasion by a dominant country over a relatively weak country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"1abd4cf1-cc22-4de4-ab6c-05cecb37f0cb","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Aggression"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The countries, namely, the US, (erstwhile) USSR, UK, France and China which came together to fight against the Axis Powers during the Second World War. There were fifty countries in this group.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"da94b5d7-1f25-4117-80ad-0d6b28bb96d7","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Allied Powers"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A group of counties with a similar aim formally united and working together.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"c519a4e9-0b31-4fda-b0ed-76abd2a0197c","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Allies"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The persons who act as the spokesperson for their governments and serve as channels of communication between the nations that send them and the host nation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"83d9be5b-c7c3-4098-b8bc-4babdea785fc","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Ambassadors"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Following a policy of 'satisfying' the aggresive power by other major powers. the UK, France's policy of appeasement towards Germany in the Munich Treaty (1938) is the best example.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"4be9715e-f0c8-49db-bde9-5201d4b2d166","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Appeasement Policy"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Making efforts for pacific settlement of disputes between two contending parties.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"095eb21a-1e2d-4174-98e4-9c4025b73fc8","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Arbitration"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A preliminary agreement between nations involved in a war, pending the signing of a peace treaty<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"852fa171-1e24-46eb-a856-f73c7d493b2c","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Armistice"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The term used for the three fascist powers, namely, Germany, Italy and Japan who had come together during the Second World War. A few smaller States joined the bloc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"66556c47-4e0a-4df1-8f64-316f6384f43a","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Axis Powers"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A system of world order in which most of the global economic, military, and cultural influence is held between two States.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"f827c93a-2ed2-4d16-9875-0c7e144691fb","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Bipolarity"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A group of States that stand together in international relations, though they do not enter into a formal alliance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"0de18290-1e0d-445c-b641-30e41c369742","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Bloc"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An economic system based on market forces, private ownership and minimal state intervention. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"2a3a7ee8-dd38-4fa6-ae74-a9410b7f3c11","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Capitalism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A defensive strategy designed<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> to retard aggression with a combination of diplomacy and force.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"f36483c7-1e56-4574-8e91-b04b5ef785cb","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Coercive diplomacy"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A situation in which two rival nations engage in proxy wars rather than direct conflict. The term is commonly used to describe the ideological dispute between the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991. However, the term can also be applied towards current tensions between the US and China.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"99911514-7742-4afe-9a90-e64d885c3439","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Cold War"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The subjugation of one people by another and political and economic control of a State over remote colonies. It is particularly used to denote the period of British and European empires of colonies from the 17th to 20th centuries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"71e4e70a-7ee1-4527-a2d9-1eb54d77bc05","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Colonialism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An economic and political system which is based on the common ownership of the means of production. In other words, a State-centric economic system based upon common ownership.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"2d72cd2e-54e0-46e9-a227-8314b9fcebad","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Communism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An agent of a State, usually without the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> complete immunity of a diplomat, who represents commercial interests and protects fellow nationals<\/span> in the major cities of other States.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"58f13ebb-f4a4-48a0-be6b-ea616ad034e4","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Consul"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The offices of the consul, which enjoy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> limited immunity concerning communications and records.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"670ca090-5c6f-4802-b075-2ae0b06ddca6","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Consulate"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An agreement or contract usually between two or more nations. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"45cac32c-e3a6-4239-aaf4-85d615cb4553","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Covenant"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A Latin term meaning \u2018in law\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"045346e6-ec8e-4bb8-868c-b0889d73463e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"De Jure"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The process of political independence won by European colonies in Africa and Asia after the Second World War. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"b036bf01-bc64-46cf-b533-dfd7ae94b04f","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Decolonisation"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A French term, meaning relaxation of tensions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"991e5d21-752e-4254-a7c3-99bdbbd46b81","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"D\u00e9tente"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The management and adjustment of relations among nations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"3446aaf4-5ce0-4ca0-82b5-9b3dc8b6a917","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Diplomacy"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity, marked by a significant decline in income and employment and real gross domestic product. This kind of a severe economic crisis crippled the economies of most European countries in 1929.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"7bb18b32-cce4-404e-9d26-8fe0c01bef14","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Economic Depression"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The location of a diplomatic mission in a<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> host country. It enjoys substantial immunity for diplomatic purposes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"251987d4-88df-40ca-95f2-f3b2de5862cb","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Embassy"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Literally means an understanding between States conducive to cooperation, but not a formal alliance. For instance, the Triple Entente was a loose group of three countries (France, UK and Russia) based on mutual understanding.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"ef629162-1c5f-4067-a840-8ee9068fbb67","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Entente"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
People whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"d3f8a66d-5c7b-46a8-a69e-28d77d1badfd","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Ethnic groups"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Europe was the central point in the study of international relations<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"519e4c64-756f-48ad-8f32-a1c51ae6b6f3","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Euro-centric"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"a57d979d-a3fe-4831-9bc2-f76c2ba7a46b","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Foreign Direct Investment"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An institution or system for dealing in the currencies of other nations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"d4584993-244d-4989-8a7c-6dd804edcd80","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Foreign exchange"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The deliberate killings, and use of other methods to destroy or exterminate a group of people belonging to a particular culture, language, politics.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"5163901c-1de8-43ef-9239-32a98b4e673e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Genocide"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A Russian term for open politics and multi-party democracy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"051c4834-f3c2-416e-9e58-05447e9c0f3c","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Glasnost"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Preponderant influence or authority by one nation over others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"89c2db4b-1705-4715-a59d-65a13ab4d0bf","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Hegemony"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A direct telephone link between Moscow and Washington for swift communications<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"5ef6998a-236a-4463-a9c4-514179aa80f5","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Hot line"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The theory which considers politics for ideals such as peace, friendship and good governance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"97aeda45-2590-40c1-a278-48bd11b816d9","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Idealism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"90aebd06-3ee2-4411-a79c-c5349ab8685b","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Immigrant"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The policy of extending power and dominion over territories via acquisition. The three main forms of imperialism are: colonies, protectorates and spheres of influence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"9895159c-df75-4470-b38d-09af6a817a45","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Imperialism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Those who lived in lands that were later colonised, in North America also known as First Nations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"66640b24-2675-45fe-825e-9556d43ce61f","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Indigenous people"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A corporation that maintains assets and\/or operations in more than one country<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"1dd1ff7f-fe8c-4539-aeb6-77059d7bac80","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"International Corporations"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A group of persons or countries bound by a common purpose or understanding.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"360bef25-d8f3-40fa-aec9-a33ec0afe179","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"League"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A country when it has all the elements of power along with nuclear power and has the capacity to maintain balance of power within a given region.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"6a43e36f-373c-462b-b52d-2fbbac412688","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Major Power"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The former colonies of defeated countries, Germany and Turkey, which were entrusted to the major countries for their administration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"5c68b679-e0c6-40bd-ab79-7b577c6c8c61","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Mandates"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
It is often interpreted as the economic counterpart of the Truman Doctrine. The plan aimed at reconstructing war-torn Europe, to protect Europe from being taken over by the Communists.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"0efa4651-8ece-40f0-aa20-accbda4fb688","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Marshall Plan"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A policy of maintaining a strong military base by a nation so as to promote or defend its national interests.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"93bcd082-f02e-4f79-8d9d-00a5fd484607","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Militarism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
An agreement between two or more nations creating a single currency area.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"6cf4de59-4c5f-4d40-b612-5f0fe9127488","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Monetary Union"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Literally means \u2018stopping of an activity for a stipulated time\u2019. In this context moratorium implies a legal authorisation to debtors to postpone payment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"a79753e7-ca30-4d3c-8e1a-63545b97d502","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Moratorium"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A process of organising relations between groups of three or more nations and a system of dispute settlement intended to enforce a particular mode of behaviour.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"92812811-9f7a-4770-abb9-bde57347e401","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Multilateralism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A structure comprising three or more especially powerful nations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"1c4f21df-3297-4554-977f-4909251d5ca8","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Multipolarity"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The construction of national identity by the State. The aim is to unify the people within a nation-State with images like flags, emblems, etc.,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"6979ebb9-1842-48ec-b4a4-e4d2c1cb7bf6","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Nation-Building"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Individuals or organisations that have powerful economic, political or social power and are able to influence at a national and sometimes international level but do not belong to or allied themselves to any particular country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"932a6e97-bad7-40f1-8f70-3e7e1b05269c","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Non-State Actors"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Industrially developed countries located in the northern hemisphere are countries called 'North' countries and other developing countries in southern hemisphere are called the 'South' countries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"3478d6c1-d9ad-42c4-b03d-bfacee6c5c17","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"North-South"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The office and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome. The Pope presides over the central government of the Roman Catholic Church. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"8c46980f-e87d-420e-9461-56c29a66165e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Papacy"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
'Perestroika' is a Russian term, literally meaning<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> \"restructuring\", referring to the restructuring of the political and economic system of the erstwhile Soviet Union, which were initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev (last president of the Soviet Union) in the 1980s to revive the stagnant Soviet economy.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"ff1507b9-e4d5-412a-8104-4f1a2faffeb3","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Perestroika"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
In international relations it is a description of the distribution of power.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"a921bc95-47e4-4e38-924e-354f2d05aff7","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Polarity"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The factors that enable one actor to manipulate another actor\u2019s behaviour against its preferences.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"154805b4-3314-4398-8e86-51652602754e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Power"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
refers to great power hostility expressed through client nations and describes superpowers' use of these nations to pursue strategic and ideological goals during the Cold War period.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"b7fa5884-6264-4004-a81e-cce320006409","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Proxy War"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The theory which considers politics as a struggle for power.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"3c128232-f459-4330-803f-96a2927a5d35","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Realism"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The fine imposed on defeated countries as a compensation for the war damages done to civilian population and property. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"62607011-dac5-48ab-8f7b-353df14f5ba4","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Reparation"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A form of government on people\u2019s consent and people\u2019s representation as opposed to monarchy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"50e52310-e04b-4b00-b601-84d64e41332e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Republic"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The communist countries comprising the (erstwhile) Soviet Union and its allies are called the 'Second World'. According to some scholars, other developed countries like the UK, Germany, Australia, and Canada are clubbed together as the second world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"7c9af0de-125a-4e0d-8508-48183b089529","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Second World"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A prescriptive concept in which a group of people or community is said to have the right to form their own political structure. Self- determination claims that a nation should achieve Statehood and determine how they are governed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"b4dbbf97-ddab-481a-bcff-fd329f4e9bbb","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Self-Determination"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A State\u2019s supreme authority to manage internal affairs and foreign relations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"e7491350-2b2d-49b0-95e5-4cf374a98cdf","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Sovereignty"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic --name adopted by republics of the former Russian empire in 1924 and then for Stalinist Empire, dissolved in 1991.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"970c6220-8bb3-42ec-982f-b244bff298ba","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Soviet Union"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
It is a system to prevent nuclear war by providing the technological inputs and means to knock incoming missiles out of the air before they hit their targets.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"8de76071-4824-4b7a-91db-d7e927470ce8","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Star Wars"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
It is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social or political issues. Status quo States strive to preserve things as they are, whereas revisionists seek to change things in international politics.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"2a7d9613-799a-4b8f-a88c-5b2a4d486b82","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Status quo"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"9ab4c844-ded5-4a3b-82a5-e363511c2a3d","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Tariff"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
The series of wars fought in Central Europe, mainly in the Holy Roman Empire, with armies of the Central European countries and the civilian population. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. This war initially began as a religious war between Protestant and Catholic States but later it gradually developed into a non-religious and general conflict among great powers of Europe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"f75186a4-b1ab-47fc-92b5-bfd0de332102","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Thirty Years War (1618-1648)"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
They are the mega enterprises whose activities extend throughout the globe. Since the 1980s, the powerful Multi-National Corporations with maximum global reach came to be referred to as the transnational corporations, abbreviated as TNCs. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"7e3f4a6b-be49-463c-aa47-66adb3ecc2ba","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Transnational Corporations"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A formally concluded and ratified agreement between nations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"bc7f005d-97bd-4b1b-aa7a-21bfb0cfb2c3","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Treaty"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Introduced by the US President Truman which justifies that the US has the right to intervene anywhere to check the spread of Communism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"342c0f36-2ca7-40bf-b959-81a23033c17e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Truman Doctrine"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
A distribution of power in which there is one State with most of the economic, military and cultural influence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"edb78d94-812d-4dfb-b241-22cc5ea1bdd4","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Unipolarity"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Name of the Palace of Versailles in Paris, France where the famous peace treaty was signed in the aftermath of the First World War.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"a3cb457a-d1c7-4924-baa8-e4b19d3c701c","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Versailles"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
In international relations, Westphalian sovereignty is regarded as the basis of the international system of States.Westphalia is a region of north-western Germany. Sovereignty as a modern concept has its roots in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) which ended the European wars of religion, including the Thirty Years\u2019 War. This treaty confirmed that States had no right to interfere in the internal affairs of other States. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"e536f5a3-a8d2-4889-92e8-124d2023f4c6","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Westphalian Sovereignty"}],"hTag":"h2"},"library":"H5P.Accordion 1.0","metadata":{"contentType":"Accordion","license":"U","title":"Glossary of Basic Terms in International Relations"},"subContentId":"23f4862a-d778-41c7-af44-125946671b8c"},"useSeparator":"auto"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Full glossary will be launched in OE Week 2024 that is in the first week of March 2024.<\/span><\/h2>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"2314a84c-4eac-4ba2-a464-81db03496807"},"useSeparator":"auto"},{"useSeparator":"auto"}]}