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25 Cards in this Set
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Statism |
Struggle for order and security resolved. state seeks to stay alive, anthropomorphized. |
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Self-help |
can only rely on themselves |
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Zero-sum |
no mutual gains, my gains = your losses |
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Security dilemma |
want to increase own security, but doing so causes other to do the same resulting in instability |
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Classic realism |
drive for power from human nature |
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neo-realism |
human nature is irrelevant |
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distribution of capabilities |
multipolar is least stable, then unipolar, then bipolar |
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Defensive realism |
power buildup for security purposes. security is the main goal |
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offensive realism |
states want max power to deal with anarchy. Global hegemon |
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neoclassical realism |
more domestic, difference in state strength, motivations of the state |
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Liberalism |
citizens equal and have basic rights, legistlative assembly only has authority invested by people, right to property, anthropomorphizes the state |
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Liberal anthro. |
states determine outward apperance, certain national right, need inter. gov. |
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Liberalism causes for war |
government interfering with natural order, not enough democracy, balance of power system |
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Liberalism preventing war |
spread democracy, collective security, integration (EU), interdependence (US and China) |
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Neoliberalism |
functional integration, states trapped in interdependence, states can have absolute gains, achieved through cooperation, main problem is those who cheat the system |
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Marxism |
primitive communist, slave society, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism |
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critical theory |
seeks to change the system (Marxism) not work to fix it |
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Dependency theory |
nations are dependdnt on the largest capital owner US is owner, developing states are the proletariats |
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Gramscianism |
No revolution because the idea of capitalism is so woven into our psyche (cannot picture world without it) |
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Constructivism |
Social theory, about human conscoiusness and its role in life, import social theory into IR |
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Idealism |
take seriously the role of ideas and human thought |
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Holism |
greater than the sum of its parts |
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Logic of appropriateness |
states are concerned with the legitimacy of their actions |
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Regulative norm |
guide behavior on what is or isn't appropriate |
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Constitutive norm |
behavior which signifies the membership to a social group |