Ir

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Dominance

Back 1

Establishing a power hierarchy in which those at the top control those below

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Reprocity

Back 2

Rewarding behavior that contributes to the group and punishing behavior that pursues self-interest at the expense of the group

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Identity

Back 3

When members of an identity community care about the interests of other in that community enough to sacrifice their own interest to benefit others

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Issue Areas

Back 4

Particular activities within a sphere that scholars and foreign policy makers focus attention

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State

Back 5

A territorial entity controlled by a government and inhabited by a population

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Civil Society

Back 6

The population inhabiting a state in the extent that it has developed institutions to participate in political or social life

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Nation

Back 7

All or part of the population that shares a group identity

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International System

Back 8

The set of relationships among the world's states structured according to certain rules and patterns of interaction

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IGO

Back 9

Intergovernmental Organizations

(Organizations whose members are national governments)

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NGO

Back 10

Nongovernmental Organizations

(Members are private organizations)

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MNC

Back 11

Multinational Corporations

(Companies that span across multiple countries. Usually control a considerable amount of resources)

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Substate Actors

Back 12

Actors who aren't necessarily leaders of their state but influence political and international decision

Front 13

Individual Level of Analysis

Back 13

Focus on the decisions, actions, and behaviors of individuals in a state

Front 14

Domestic Level of Analysis

Back 14

How aggregations of people, such as interests groups, influence the way states act in the international arena

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Interstate Level of Analysis

Back 15

Looks at how states interact with each other. Look at their relative power position. Concerns the influence of international system upon outcomes.

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Globalization

Back 16

Looks at monetary coordination, global trends, international trade, telecommunication

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A popular conception of Globalization

Back 17

The widening and deepening of worldwide interconnectedness

Front 18

Kant says there are 3 answers to how peace and cooperation are possible

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1) States could develop organizations and rules to facilitate cooperation. Form something like the UN

2) Peace depends on how a state's internal structure is. Is it a system in which the monarch is kept in place?

3) Trade promotes peace

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Neoliberalism

Back 19

Concedes several assumptions to realism.

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International Regimes

Back 20

A set of norms, rules, and procedures that are expected of actors converge in a certain issue area

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Collective Security

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The formation of a broad alliance of major actors in an international system for the purpose of jointly opposing aggression by an actor

Front 22

Success of collective security is dependent on two points

Back 22

States must maintain their commitments.

States must agree on what aggression is

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Security Dilemma

Back 23

The idea that you have arms not to use them, but to intimidate. This causes an arms race.

Front 24

Security Dilemma

Back 24

The idea that you have arms not to use them, but to intimidate. This causes an arms race.

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Constructivism

Back 25

Question the nature of international system and realist assumption. (We need to know something about their identity bc it'll affect them behaviors and interests)

Front 26

Security Dilemma

Back 26

The idea that you have arms not to use them, but to intimidate. This causes an arms race.

Front 27

Constructivism

Back 27

Question the nature of international system and realist assumption. (We need to know something about their identity bc it'll affect them behaviors and interests)

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Marxism

Back 28

Unequal relationships between economic classes.

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Peace Studies

Back 29

Interdisciplinary approach to looking at peace and its possibility throughout the world

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Foreign Policy

Back 30

Policies, choices that states make about what they're going to do in the global sphere

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Rational Actor Model

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1) Recognize problem

2) Understand & Identify a goal

3) Identity alternatives

4) Weigh in alternatives

5) Form a plan to implement

6) Evaluate the outcome of your policy

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Risk acceptant

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When actors weigh in the possibility of there being risk then choose

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Risk acceptant

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When actors weigh in the possibility of there being risk then choose

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Risk Averse

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Avoid taking risks after weighing in risks then finding that a policy may not have a high probability of happening event though it would bring great benefits

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Geopolitics

Back 35

How does geographic location affect your political status?

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Contiguity

Back 36

Who you share borders with will share the problems you do

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Contiguity

Back 37

Who you share borders with will share the problems you do

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Polarity

Back 38

Foreign policy bounded or affected by polarity.

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Realism

Back 39

IR in terms of power

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Idealism

Back 40

Emphasize international law, morality, and international organizations