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26 Cards in this Set
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State
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independent political entity. has to be nationally recognized and has to have legitimate force and right to its boundaries.
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Nation
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group of people with common culture and mutual sense of identification.
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Nation-State
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State made up of a specific nation with common culture (france).
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Country
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rarely if ever used, too ambiguous.
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Theoretical
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idea, theory, to prove or disprove.
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Methodological
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how you're going to prove that idea or theory.
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Behavioralism
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way to study politics based on how people (units) interace, use of scientific method observation.
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Traditionalism
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looking at history and creating theory based off of it, largely based on theorizing information, can't be measured.
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Normative
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what should have happened (hard to prove)
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Impericle Question
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What happened and why (quantitative).
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State
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independent political entity. has to be nationally recognized and has to have legitimate force and right to its boundaries.
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Nation
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group of people with common culture and mutual sense of identification.
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Nation-State
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State made up of a specific nation with common culture (france).
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Country
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rarely if ever used, too ambiguous.
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Theoretical
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idea, theory, to prove or disprove.
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Levels of Aggregation
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System
Domestic Individual |
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Systemic
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meathod of analyzing international relations, according to factors from the world political system, not from the state, structure of international system. (BIGGEST)
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Domestic
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meathod of analyzing international relations based on the unique characteristics of each state, like society. (MeDiUm)
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Individual
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how personal beliefs (in leaders like the pope) impact international relations. (smallest)
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Levels of Analysis
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worldview
paradigm theory model hypothesis probability statement |
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Worldview
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What any given person thinks about anything, fundamental view based on society.
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Paradigm
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Formilizes world view, guides scientific reserch. Includes key assumptions about the world. Biggest paradigm=realism
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Theory
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Coherent set of law like generalizations. None in politics today.
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Model
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Simplification of prpositions derived by a theory. Important ones include "balance of power" and "power transition" models of war onset.
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Hypthesis
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If this, then that. Educated, has to be able to be proven true or false, statement about an idea.
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Probability Statement
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a hypothesis that is confirmed for virtually all of the things to which it is applicable.
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