International Politics Test 1

Front 1

Regime

Back 1

A set of principles, norms, rules, and decision making procedures around which state expectations converge in a given issue area.

Front 2

Collective Good

Back 2

A tangible or intangible good created by members of a group that is available to all members of the group regardless of their individual contribution to the provision of the good.

Front 3

Security Dilemma

Back 3

A situation in which any move that one state makes to increase its security is perceived by other states as potentially threatening and will result in a counter move by other states to increase their own security.

Front 4

Collective Security System

Back 4

The formation of a broad alliance in the IR system for the purpose of opposing aggression by any actor.

Front 5

Theorizing

Back 5

Watching cycles of recurring phenomena and try to identify reasons that influence that phenomena

Front 6

Levels of Analysis

Back 6

Orients the questions we are posing and helps identify the most relevent variables.

Front 7

What are the 3 types of Levels of Analysis?

Back 7

Individual, State, and Systems.

Front 8

Realism

Back 8

-power motivates all political actions
-States want to survive

Front 9

Political Power

Back 9

Ability to achieve the preferred outcome in a bargaining situation.

Front 10

Thucidides

Back 10

Realist who tried to explain changes in the balance of power.

Front 11

Machiavelli

Back 11

Realist who asked "Why do states fail or thrive?" States will "Get their hands dirty" to save the state.

Front 12

Hobbes

Back 12

Realist who stated that Humans are rational. They operate on fear.

Front 13

Power

Back 13

the ability to get another actor to do what it would not do; influence.

Front 14

Resources

Back 14

Elements that can be drawn on over the long term to get an actor to do what it would not have otherwise done in the short term.

Front 15

Tangible Resources

Back 15

*Wealth*, geography, population

Front 16

Intangible Resources

Back 16

Education level, Patriotism, Scientific Capabilities, Credibility of Commitments

Front 17

Capabilities

Back 17

Allow actors to influence events in the short term.

Front 18

Tangible Capabilities

Back 18

Steel, Tanks, Weapons, Effectiveness of soldiers, Machinery

Front 19

Intangible Capabilites

Back 19

THe support and legitamacy of the population, Loyalty of the army, Reputation with Allys.

Front 20

Structural Realism (Neorealism)

Back 20

State behavior and international outcomes are all driven by the structure of the international system.

Front 21

Neorealism Assumptions

Back 21

1. No clear patterns of authority.
2. States are most important actors.
3. States are reational and unitary actors.
4. Security Trumps all other issues.
5. Military is an effective and useable policy instrument.

Front 22

Unitary

Back 22

Speak externally with a single voice

Front 23

Unipolar

Back 23

One states dominates all other states.

Front 24

Hegemon

Back 24

The strongest state in a unipolar world.

Front 25

Interdependence

Back 25

Relying on other states for needs/wants

Front 26

John Locke, Adam Smith

Back 26

Liberalists

Front 27

Liberalism

Back 27

War and injustice are products of corrupt social institutions and misunderstanding, not lust for power

Front 28

Liberalism Assumptions

Back 28

1. Individuals are rational
2. progress towards the greater human freedom
3. Central to the realization to progress is cooperation.
4. IP is being transformed by modernization.

Front 29

Classical Idealism

Back 29

Subtheory of Liberalism that suggests there is a natural harmony of interests among people. Pursure these interests through the development of a Collective Security System.

Front 30

Contemporary Liberal Theory

Back 30

Subtheory of Liberalism that suggests cooperation could be sustained. Order and Stability needs to be promoted. Power does matter. Cooperation flourishes because institutions can be formed for their own self interests.

Front 31

Democratic Peace Hypothesis

Back 31

No two liberal democracies have ever gone to war with one another. Liberal Democracies are just as prone to war as any other state.

Front 32

Marxism/Socialism

Back 32

The Working class will get together and rise up against the rich and form a government free from class struggle.

Front 33

Postmodernism

Back 33

The application of the scientific method is not possible in the social sciences. The social structure is made by the citizens. There is no single objective reality but a multiplicity of experiences and perspectives.

Front 34

Contructivists

Back 34

Social Structures shape state interests and identities. Social Structures are composed of shared knowledge, material resources, practices and behavior over time.

Front 35

Feminism

Back 35

New insights on political systems based on gender.

Front 36

Difference Feminists

Back 36

There are real differences between genders. Men think about sovergnty and power while women think about peace and interdependence.

Front 37

International System

Back 37

A set of relations between units structured according to written and unwritten rules of interaction.

Front 38

States

Back 38

1. excercise authority over geographically specified territory.
2. permanent population
3. formally recognized by other states.
(full voting and seating rights in the U.N.)

Front 39

Supranational actors

Back 39

1. Intergovernmental- global, multiple states
2. non governmental-concerned individuals (Red Cross)
3. Multi National-cooperations go across boundaries for their own interests

Front 40

Subnational actors

Back 40

Domestic political organizations, political parties, doesnt have international membership

Front 41

Sovergnty

Back 41

States control what happens within their own territory.

Front 42

Liberal Feminists

Back 42

Women act the same as men when in a powerful position. Gender equality will increase capabilities.

Front 43

Postmodern Feminists

Back 43

Differences between the genders are trivial. Gender roles are changeable. Society needs to deconstruct the roles.

Front 44

Conflict

Back 44

Difference in preferred outcomes in a bargaining situation.

Front 45

Conflicts of Interest

Back 45

Tangible,
examples:
Territory, control of governments

Front 46

Irridentism

Back 46

Goal of reclaiming territory that was lost to another state.

Front 47

Secession

Back 47

When a group of people within a state want to break away from that state.