Glossary: Terms that every IWP student should know
On completing the Master of Arts program, every Institute of World Politics student should know the following terms and concepts:
Active measures
Agent of Influence
Agrément
Aide memoire
Alliance
Anarchy
Annexation
Anschluss
Apartheid
Appeasement
Arbitrage
Armistice
Arms control
Asymmetrical warfare
Autarky
Authoritarianism
ANZUS
Balance of payments
Balance of power
Balance of terror
Battlespace
BBC
Bipolarity
Bolshevism
Boycott Bretton Woods system
Buffer zone
C2, C3I, C4I
Caliphate
Capital account (balance of payments)
Caribbean Sea
Carpathian Divide
Cartel
Casus belli
Caudillo
Chargé d'affaires
Choke point
Coalition warfare
Cold War Collective security agreement
Colony
Comintern
Common market
Commonwealth
Communiqué
Communism
Comparative advantage
Concert of Europe
Concession
Conflict areas
Consul general
Consular
Containment
Continental shelf
Correlation of forces
Counterespionage
Counter-force capability
Counterinsurgency
Counterintelligence
Counter-value strategy
Country team
Coup d'état
Credentials
Crimean Evacucation
Critical infrastructure
Crusades/crusaders
CSCE
Cultural diplomacy
Currency Board
Current account (balance of payments)
Customs union
Cyberwar
Deception / denial & deception (D&D)
De facto recognition
De jure recognition
Démarche
Democratic peace, theory of the
Détente
Deterrence
Diplomatic immunity
Disinformation
Dunkirk
Dunkirk evacuation
Dual-use technology
EEC (European Economic Community)
Embargo
Entente
EU (European Union)
Exceptionalism, American
Executive agreement
Expansionism
Extraterritoriality
Fascism
Fifth column
Finding
Finlandization
First strike capability
Fixed exchange rate system
Flexible response
Floating exchange rate system
Force majeure
Front organization
G2
G-7
G-8
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Geopolitics
Geosynchronous orbit
Globalization
Guerrilla warfare
Gulag archipelago
GWOT
Harmony of interest
Head of government
Head of state
Heartland
Hegemony
High seas
Holocaust
Horn of Africa
Human rights
ICBM
Idealism
Ideological warfare
Ideology
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
Imperialism
Information operations
Information policy
Information warfare
Integration
Interdependence
International Court of Justice
International law
Intervention/interventionism
Islamism
Island nations
Islands of autonomy
Isolationism
Irredentism
Ius in bello
Ius ad bellum
Jacobinism
Jihad
Jingoism
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Staff
Jointness
Jungle
Junta
Just-war doctrine
Khyber Pass
Landlocked
Lao Gai
Launch on warning
League of Nations
Lebensraum
Legation
Legitimacy
Limited war
Linkage
Littoral
Mackinder
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Mahan
Mandate
Manifest Destiny
Marque
Marshall Plan
Marxism-Leninism
Mass organization
Massive retaliation
Mercantilism
Messianism
Militarism
Mineral deposits
Mirror imaging
Misinformation
MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle)
Money
Most Favored Nation status (Permanent Normal Trade Relations)
Mountainous country
"Mr. X"
Multinational corporation
Multipolarity
Munich Settlement
NAFTA
Nation
Nation-state
National Security Council
National Socialism (Nazism)
Nationalism
National interest (including vital national interests)
National liberation war
NATO
NSC-68
NSC-75 (NSDD-75)
Natural law
Near abroad
Netwar
Neutrality
NOCs
Non-alignment
NGO
Non-proliferation Treaty
Non-tariff barriers
Nuclear triad
OAS
OECD
OPEC
Pacifism
Panama Canal
Peace
Peaceful coexistence
Peg
Permafrost
PNG (Persona non grata)
Plains of Panipat
Political action
Political operations
Political socialization
Political warfare
Preemption
Pripet Marshes
Proletarian Internationalism
Proliferation
Propaganda (white, gray, black)
Protectionism
Protectorate
Proxy warfare
Psychological warfare
PSYOP
Public affairs
Public diplomacy
Public relations
Quisling
Quotas
Raison d'etat
Rapprochement
Ratification
Realism
Refugee
Reprisal
Reservation
Revanchism
Revolutionary warfare
RFE/RL
Rights
Rimland
Rockies
Rogue state
Rollback
Roman roads in the Sinai
Rubicon
Rule of law
Salami tactics
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Samizdat
Sanctions
Satellite
Satrap
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
Second strike capability
Security Council
Self-determination
SLBM
SLOCs
Social democracy
Socialism
Soft power
Solidarity movement
Sovereignty
Soviet
Space
Space dominance
Space power
Spheres of influence
Spratly Islands
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks/Treaty)
Strategic deception
Strategic warfare
Strategy
Subversion
Summitry
Suez Canal
Suzerainty
Tactical deception
Tactics
Tariff
Territorial jurisdiction
Terrorism
Third world
Tierra del Fuego
Totalitarianism
Tranquility of Order (Tranquillitas Ordinis)
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Treaty
Treaty of Rome
Triads
Trusteeship
UN Charter
United Nations
Utopianism
Voice of America
Warsaw Pact
Waterloo
Westphalia, Peace of
WMD
Wilsonianism
World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Warm water port
World island
WTO (World Trade Organization)
Zionism
