A
Actors (international)

Adjudication

Adversarial diplomacy

Amorality

Anarchical political system

Appeasement policy

Arms control

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Autarky

Authoritarian government

Authoritarianism

B
Balance of payments

Balance of power

Beijing + 5 Conference

Bilateral diplomacy

Bilateral (foreign) aid

Biopolitics

Bipolar system

Bretton Woods system

Bureaucracy

C
Capitalism

Carrying capacity

Cartel

Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

Clash of civilizations

Coalition diplomacy

Codify

Coercive diplomacy

Coercive power

Cognitive decision making

Cold war

Collective security

Communism

Communitarianism

Conditionality

Confederation

Containment doctrine

Council of Ministers

Countries in transition (CITs)

Crisis situation

Cultural imperialism

Current dollars

D
Debt service

Decision making

Decision-making analysis

Democracy/democratic government

Democratic peace theory

Democratized diplomacy

Dependencia theory

D'tente

Deterrence

Development capital

Direct democracy

Dual-use technology

E
East-West Axis

Economic internationalism

Economic nationalism

Economic structuralism

Economically developed country (EDC)

Elites

Environmental optimists

Environmental pessimists

Escalation

Ethnonational groups

Ethology

European Commission

European Economic Community (EEC)

European Ombudsman

European Parliament

European Union (EU)

Eurowhites

Event data analysis

Exchange rate

F
Fascism

Feudal system

Foreign direct investment (FDI)

Foreign portfolio investment (FPI)

Fourth World

Fourth World Conference on Women (WCW)

Free economic exchange

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Frustration-aggression theory

Functional relations

Functionalism

Fundamentalism

G
Gender opinion gap

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

General and complete disarmament (GCD)

Government

Gross domestic product (GDP)

Gross national product (GNP)

Group of Eight (G-8)

Group of Seven (G-7)

Group of 77 (G-77)

Groupthink

H
Hague system

Hard currency

Holy Roman Empire

Horizontal authority structure

Hostile diplomacy

I
Idealists

Ideological or theological school of law (principles)

Idiosyncratic analysis

Imperial overstrech thesis

Imperialism

Incremental decision making

Incremental policy

Individualism

Individual-level analysis

Industrial revolution

Interdependence (economic)

Interest group

Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)

Intermestic

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International political economy (IPE)

International system

Investment, foreign

Iron triangle

Irredentism

Issue areas

J
Jihad

Jus ad bellum

Jus in bello

L
Leader-public opinion gap

League of Nations

Least developed countries (LLDCs)

Less developed countries (LDCs)

Levels of analysis

Limited membership council

M
Maastricht Treaty

MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction)

Majority voting

Marxism

Mass

McWorld

Mediation diplomacy

Merchandise trade

Microstate

Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)

Monarchism

Monetary relations

Moral absolutism

Moral prudence

Moral relativism

Multilateral diplomacy

Multilateral (foreign) aid

Multinational corporations (MNCs)

Multinational states

Multipolar system

Multistate nationalities

Munich analogy

Munich Conference

N
Nation

National technical means (NTM)

Nationalism

Nation-state

Naturalist school of law

Nature versus nurture debate

Neocolonialism

Neofunctionalism

New International Economic Order (NIEO)

Newly industrializing countries (NICs)

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

Non-status quo situations

Nontariff barrier (NTB)

Norms

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

North-South Axis

NUT (Nuclear Utilization Theory)

O
Objective power

On-site inspection (OSI)

Open diplomacy

Operational code

Operational reality

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Organizational behavior

P
Pacificism

Pacta sunt servanda

Parliamentary diplomacy

Peacekeeping

Peacemaking

Perceptions

Persuasive power

Plenary representative body

Pole

Political culture

Political executives

Politics of identity

Popular sovereignty

Positivist school of law

Postindustrial economy

Postinternationalism

Postmodernism

Power

Power to defeat

Power to hurt

President of the Commission

Primary products

Procedural democracy

Protectionism

Protestant Reformation

Public diplomacy

R
Real dollars

Realists

Realpolitik

Regime

Regional government

Relative power

Relativists

Renaissance

Role

S
SALT I

SALT II

Secretariat

Self-determination

Service economies (trade)

Situational power

Social Darwinism

Social overstretch thesis

Southern Common Market (Mercosur)

Sovereignty

Special drawing rights (SDRs)

Sphere of influence

State

State terrorism

State-centric system

State-level analysis

Status quo situations

Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START I) Treaty I

Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START II) Treaty II

Subjective power

Subnational actors

Substantive democracy

Summit meetings

Superpower

Supranational organization

Sustainable development

System-level analysis

T
Tariff

Theocracy

Third World

Transnational actors

Transnational advocacy networks (TANs)

Transnational corporations (TNCs)

Transnationalism

Treaty of Amsterdam (1997)

Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

Trilateral countries

Tripolar system

Two-level game theory

U
UN Conference on Population and Development (UNCPD)

UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

UN Development Programme (UNDP)

UN General Assembly (UNGA)

UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

UN Security Council

Unanimity voting

Unipolar system

United Nations (UN)

United Nations Conference on Population and Development (UNCPD)

Universalists

Uruguay Round

V
Vertical authority structure

Veto

Vietnam analogy

W
Weapons of mass destruction

Weapons proliferation

Weighted voting

West

Westernization of the international system

World Bank Group

World government

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Trade Organization (WTO)

X
Xenophobia

Z
Zionism