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International anarchy |
No overriding power prevents sovereign states from conflicting. |
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National interest |
What is good for a country as a whole in IR (disputed) |
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Sovereignty |
Concept that each state rules its own territory without interference |
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Samuel Huntington |
Wrote "Clash of Civilizations" predicting a future of conflict, civilisational |
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Levels of analysis |
1. Man [individual leaders 🔑decisions] 2. State [govt, bureaucrats, partys] 3. System [IOs, international law, transnational movements] |
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Social science |
Scientific study ofhuman society and social relationships/behaviour |
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Balance of power |
States form alliances to offset threatening states |
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State |
Term to describe any independent country in the world. |
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Nation |
An imagined community |
Vape nayshhh |
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Benedict Anderson |
Wrote "Imagined Communities" |
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Liberalism |
In IR, the presumption that countries can interact peacefully |
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Realism |
IR theory that emphasizes power and national interest |
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Tenents of realism |
1. States are unitary rational actors 2. States seek power and security maximization 3. Human nature is flawed (classical) 4. International system is anarchical 5. Only strong states survive |
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Marxism |
Militant, revolutionary theory of socialism. |
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Constructivism |
Mental constructs, formed by social interaction and convention, govern thinking |
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international relations |
Interactions among states |
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Domestic politics |
Interactions within countries |
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Westphalian |
System set up by 1648 peace of Westphalia that made sovereignty the norm |
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Legitimacy |
Widespread acceptance of something as necessary, rightful, and legally binding |
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Power |
Ability of one actor to get another to do its bidding |
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Force |
Application of military power |
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System |
Interaction of many components so that changing one changes the others |
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Reification |
Mistaking a theory for reality |
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Interwar |
Between WW1 and 2. 1919-1939 |
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Bipolar |
The world divided into two power centers (Cold War) |
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Multipolar |
World divided into many power centers |
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Unipolar |
The world dominated by 1 power center |
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Globalization |
World turning into one big capitalist market |
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Supranational |
Power above the national level, as in the UN |
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Theory |
Explanation of why things happen |
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Empirical |
Supported by observable evidence |
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Rational |
Able to think clearly and test ideas against reality |
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Paradigm |
Widely accepted research model or way of studying things |
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Machiavelli |
Italian political theorist, author of The Prince. Divorces mortality from politics |
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Immanuel Kant |
Author of Perpetual Peace, argues that war is irrational and will one day become obsolete. |
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Karl Marx |
German political philosopher, economist, and theorist Communist manifesto |
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Groupthink |
Irving Janis's theory that group cohesion stifles doubt and dissent. |
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Proletariat |
In Marxism, large class of industrial workers |
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Bourgeoisie |
Upper class in Marxism. |
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Democratic peace thesis |
Democracies do not typically go to war with each other |
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Monadic argument |
Democracies are inherently more peaceful |
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Dyadic argument |
Democracies may or may not be more powerful than each other, but they don't attack each other due to shared interests |
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Hard power |
The use of military and economic means to influence others |
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Soft power |
Ability to shape the preferences of others through appeal and attraction. Non-coercive Culture, values, ideas |
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