FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Fall 2022

INTL 203: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Assoc. Prof. Belgin San Akca

This study guide is intended to provide you with some concepts and topics that are covered
in the lectures and reading material in the post-midterm period. Note that it does not cover
everything that might appear in the exam. In addition, it is not guaranteed that ALL
material covered below will appear in the exam. The final exam will cover topics from the
beginning of class, which means midterm topics are also included. Nevertheless, the
emphasis will be on the post-midterm concepts and topics.

Sovereignty
Westphalian Peace Security Community
The League of Nations Transnational Community
Collective security OECD
Security Community Collective Good
Realism Free-rider dilemma
Polarity: unipolar, bipolar, multipolar order Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Guns vs. butter dilemma UN General Assembly
Military Keynesianism International Political Economy (IPE)
Weapons of Mass Destruction Mercantilism
Nuclear Weapons Economic liberalism
Deterrence Free trade
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Balance of trade
First-strike capability Protectionism
Second-strike capability Nontariff barriers
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) World Trade Organization (WTO)
ICBMs GATT
Chemical Weapons North American free trade agreement
Biological Weapons OPEC
Cuban Missile Crisis Intellectual property rights
Preventive war Industrialization
Preemptive war Centrally planned economy
START State-owned industries
SALT Exchange rate
Just War Fixed exchange rates
Self-defense Bretton Woods system
Discrimination in war World Bank
Double effect IMF
POWs Balance of payments
The Hague Conferences National debt
The Geneva Conventions Multinational corporations
Abu Ghraib Scandal Foreign direct investment
Terrorism Less-developed countries
Legal positivism Migration
International Law Helsinki Final Act, 1975
Law of the Sea Refugees
International Waters World-system
Exclusive Economic Zone Imperialism
Hugo Grotius Neocolonialism
International Court of Justice Dependency theory
International Criminal Law Export-led growth
Human Rights IMF conditionality
International Bill of Rights Free Trade Area
Amnesty International Customs Union
Humanitarian Intervention North-South Gap
Genocide Capitalism
War Crimes Mao Zedong
Sovereign Immunity Deng Xiaoping
Universal Jurisdiction Gulf War, 1990-1991
Crimes against humanity Special Drawing Rights
Unilateralism vs. multilateralism Foreign Direct Investment
Economic development Export-Led Industrialization
Newly industrializing countries Import-Substitution Industrialization
Four tiger, four dragons Transaction cost
Import substitution Rostow
Interdependence World System Theory chapter 4
International Regimes Immanuel Wallerstein
Hegemonic Stability Theory Core, semi-periphery, periphery
Fixed Exchange Rate Regime NIEO (New International Economic Order)
Floating Exchange Rate Regime G-77
Modernization Theory Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act
David Ricardo OPEC
Comparative Advantage G-20
Tariffs vs. Nontariff barriers European Union
Commercial Revolution NAFTA
Imperialism Regionalism
Revolution of Proletariat Complex interdependence
Private Property European Court of Justice
Capitalism Balance of trade
Class Struggle BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South
Vladimir Lenin Africa)
International Bank of Reconstruction and Economic sanctions
Development (IBRD) Autarky
Nondiscrimination Principle (World Bank) Adam Smith
Most-Favored Nation Principle Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Intergovernmentalism
Supranationalism
Marshall Plan