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27 Cards in this Set
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Actor
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An individual, grp, state, or org that plays a major role in world politics
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State sovereignty
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A state’s supreme authority to manage internal affairs and foreign relations
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State
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An independent legal entity w/ a gov’t exercising exclusive control over the territory and population it governs
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Nation
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A collectivity whose ppl see themselves as members of the same grp b/c they share the same ethnicity, culture, or language
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Foreign policy
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The decisions governing authorities make to realize int’l goals
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Globalization
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The accelerating process by which increasing interstate interconnectedness has eroded the traditional distinction between states’ domestic and int’l affairs
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Intervention
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The uninvited involvement and interference of one state into the internal sovereign state affairs of another (long prohibited by int’l law)
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Imperialism
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Intentional imposition of one state’s power over another, traditionally through territorial conquest, but more recently through economic domination, denying the victim population freedom to have a voice in the conquering regime’s decisions
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Geopolitics
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The theoretical postulate that states’ foreign policies are determined by their location, natural resources, and physical environment
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Constitutional Democracy
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Gov’t processes that allow ppl, through their elected representatives, to exercise power and influence the state’s policies
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Autocratic Rule
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A system of authoritarian or totalitarian gov’t where unlimited power is concentrated in a single leader
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Diversionary Theory of War
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The hypothesis that leaders sometimes initiate conflict abroad as a way of increasing nat’l cohesion at home by diverting nat’l public opinion away from controversial domestic issues and internal problems
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End of History
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The thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama that b/c liberal democracy and a market economy are the only workable options for modern societies, the contest with centrally planned governance has ended
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Democratic Peace
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The theory that although democratic states sometimes wage wars against other states, they do not fight one another
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Neoliberalism
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A perspective that accounts for the way institutions can promote global change, cooperation, peace, and prosperity through collective action and democratic reforms
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Rational Choice
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Decision-making procedures guided by careful definition of situations, weighing of goals, consideration of all alternatives, and selection of the options most likely to achieve the higher goals
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Cognitive Dissonance
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The general psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one’s preexisting believes (cognitions) and new information
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Satisficing
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The tendency for decision makers to choose the first satisfactory option rather than searching further for a better alternative
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Two-Level Games
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A concept referring to the growing need to nat’l policymakers to make decisions that will meet both domestic and foreign goals
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Constructivism
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A scholarly approach to inquiry emphasizing the importance of agents (ppl and grps_ and the shared meanings they construct to define their identities, interests, and institutions – understangins that influence their behavior
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Politics
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The exercise of influence in bargaining situations
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Groupthink
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The propensity for members of a grp to accept and agree with the groups prevailing attitudes, rather than speaking out for what they believe
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Nixon Doctrine
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US allies should bear a greater share of the burden for their defense
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Reagan Doctrine
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Pledge of US support for anticommunist insurgents who sough to overthrow Soviet-supported gov’ts
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Clinton Doctrine
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Active engagement in world affairs to support enlargement of the peaceful liberal democratic community
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Bush Doctrine
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US will make decisions only to meet America’s perceived nat’l interests, not to concede to other countries’ complaints or to gain their acceptance
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Neorealism
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Theoretical account of states’ behavior as determined by differences in their relative power
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