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12 Cards in this Set
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What are the four fundamental conditions of statehood?
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- Defined territory
- Stable population - Government - International recognition |
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What is a nation?
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A group of people who share a set of characteristics such as culture, language, customes, lifestyles
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What are some other concepts of statehood?
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- State is normative order, symbol for the society and their beliefs
- Monopoly on legitimate use of violence - Functional unit that has responsibilities, centralization |
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What is the liberal view of the state?
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Sovereignty but not autonomous actor. State is a process to maintain rules of the game that ensure various interests compete fairly. No explicit or consistent national interest, but many.
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What is the realist view of the state?
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State-centric view. State is autonomous actor constrained only by intl system structural anarchy. State has consistent national interest defined in terms of power and ideology.
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What is the radical view of the state?
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Instrumental Marxist: state is executing agent of bourgeoisie.
Structural Marxist: state operates within international capitalist system. - No national interest, just economic goals. No real sovereignty, constantly reacting to capitalist pressures |
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What is power?
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Ability to influence others and create outcomes with unnatural results.
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What are the sources of power?
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Natural sources: geography, (natural) resources, population; Enhanced/Moderated by:
- Tangible sources: industrial development, access to resources - Intangible sources: national image, public support, leadership |
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When are an individual's actions most likely to affect the course of events?
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When: political institutions unstable, young, in crisis, or collapsed, when there are few institutional constraints;
When the situation is peripheral, unique, ambiguous |
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What are the major assumptions of federalism?
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War is caused by individual states exercising sovereignty. So transfer that sov to higher federal body and eliminate root cause of war.
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What are the major assumptions of functionalism?
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War caused by economic deprivation, disparity cannot be solved by system of independent states, create functional units to solve specific problems and build habits of cooperation.
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What are the major assumptions of collective goods?
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Need to overcome negative consequences of the actions of others on collective goods - tragedy of the commons. Strategies include coercion, incentives, altering size of group
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