Given all the misinformation, I decided to invest in a new handbook on key IR concepts. Starting from the top 15:
1. Double game: When a weaker country tries to protect its national interest.
2. Pragmatism: When a Western country protects its national interest
1. Double game: When a weaker country tries to protect its national interest.
2. Pragmatism: When a Western country protects its national interest
3. Do More: When you want a weaker nation to lift the burden of your blunders
4. Lack of Will: When an ally refuses to meet your unreasonable expectations
4. Lack of Will: When an ally refuses to meet your unreasonable expectations
5. Foreign Aid: Money we give our contractors/consultants to write fancy reports
6. Winning Hearts and Minds: Stuff you do during or after bombing a country back to the stone age
6. Winning Hearts and Minds: Stuff you do during or after bombing a country back to the stone age
7. Human Rights: Stuff we like in other countries
8. Democracy: Stuff we like to celebrate
9. Freedom of Speech: Stuff that China and Russia lacks
10. Sovereignty: Does not apply outside the Western world
8. Democracy: Stuff we like to celebrate
9. Freedom of Speech: Stuff that China and Russia lacks
10. Sovereignty: Does not apply outside the Western world
11. Failed State: Places that send refugees after we bomb them
12. Fragile State: Places that may send refugees if we bomb them
13. Refugees: Folks that Pakistan should host
12. Fragile State: Places that may send refugees if we bomb them
13. Refugees: Folks that Pakistan should host
14. Strategic Policy: A powerpoint with 30 slides good for 3 months
15. StratComm: Communications with a new name
15. StratComm: Communications with a new name
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