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Hegemonic stability theory
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A body of theory that maintains that the establishment of hegemony for global dominance by a single great power is a necessary condition for global order in commercial transactions and int’l military security
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Balance of power
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The tendency for opposed coalitions to form so that the distribution of military power is “balanced” to prevent any single power or bloc from dominating others
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Individual level of analysis
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An analytical approach to the study of world politics that emphasizes the psychologival and perceptual origins of the foreign policy decisions of int’l actors, with special attention to leaders
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Rational choice
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The theory that decision makers choose on the basis of what they perceive to be the best interests for themselves and their states, based on their expectations about the relative usefulness of alternative options for realizing goals. Sometimes called “expected-utility theory,” this model derives from realist theories
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State level of analysis
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An analytical approach to the study of world politics that emphasizes how the internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behaviors
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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A multilateral treaty negotiated in 1928 that outlawed war as a method for settling interstate conflicts
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Irredentism
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A mvt by an ethnic nat’l grp to regain control of lost territory by force so that the new state boundaries will no longer divide the grp
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Appeasement
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A strategy of making concessions to an aggressor state w/o retaliation in the hope that, satisfied, it will not make additional claims on the territory of its neighbors
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Multipolarity
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The distribution of global power into three or more great-power centers, w/ other states allied w/ one of the rivals
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Imperialism
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The policy of expanding state power through the conquest and/or military domination of foreign territory
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Yalta Conference
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The 1945 summit meeting, w/ FDR, Stalin, and Churchill to resolve postwar territorial issues and voting procedures in the UN to collectively manage world order
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Power transition
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A narrowing of the ratio of military capabilities between great-power rivals that is thought to increase the probability of war between them
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Security dilemma
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The central problem faced by all sovereign states in an anarchic global system in which one state’s arming for ostensible defensive purposes provokes other threatened states to arm in response, with the result that the nat’l security of all declines as their armaments increase
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Security regime
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Norms and rules for interactions agreed to by a set of states to increase their security
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Truman Doctrine
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The declaration that US foreign policy would use intervention to support ppl who allied w/ the US against communist external subjugation
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Containment
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A strategy to prevent a great power rival from using force to alter the balance of power and increase its sphere of influence
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Extended deterrence
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A great power’s commitment to its allies to use its military might to prevent them from being attacked by an enemy
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Linkage strategy
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A set of assertions claiming that leaders should take into account another country’s overall behavior when deciding whether to reach agreement on any one specific issue so as to link cooperation to rewards
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Carter Doctrine
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Declaration of US willingness to use military force to protect its interests in the Persian Gulf
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Reagan Doctrine
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A US promise to support anticommunist insurgents attempting to overthrow gov’ts backed by the Soviet Union
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Soft power
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The capacity to co-opt through such intangible factors as the popularity of a state’s values and institutions, as opposed to the “hard power” to coerce through military might
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Imperial overstretch
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The phrase coined by Paul Kennedy to capture the historic tendency for past hegemons to sap their own strength through costly imperial pursuits and military spending that weaken their economies in relation to the economies of their rivals
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Selective engagement
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A great-power grand strategy using economic and military power to influence only important particular situations, countries, or global issues by striking a balance between a highly interventionist “global policeman” and an uninvolved isolationist
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Bush Doctrine
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The unilateral grant strategy to preserve a unipolar world under US hegemony by keeping US “military strength beyond challenge” by any other great power
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Concert
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A cooperative agreement among great powers to manage jointly the int’l system
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Collective security
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A security regime agreed to by the great powers setting rules for keeping peace, guided by the principle that an act of aggression by any state will be met by a collective response from the rest
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