Political Science Test 1

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Globalization

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The widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness

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Globalization sceptic

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Believe that states and geopolitics remain the principle forces shaping world order

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Transformationalist

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Takes globalization seriously, but does not lead to the demise of the sovereign states, but to global politics

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Integration

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The expansion of global commerce, finance and production which links the fates of nations, communities and households

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Interdependent

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Linkages between different countries

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Deterritorialization

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Social, political, and economic activities becoming stretched across the globe

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Internationalization

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Growing interdependence within states, but presumes national units with demarcated borders

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Regionalization

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Flows of trade and interconnectedness between states which share common borders

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Types of Globalization

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Economic, Miliatry, Legal, Ecological, Cultural, Social

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Engines of Globalization

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Technics, Economics, Politics

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Peace Treaties of Westphalia and Osnabruck (1648)

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Established the legal basis of modern statehood and the normative structure of the modern world order

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Geopolitics

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State-Centric

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Global Politics

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Geocentric

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Distorted Global Politics

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States and groups with greater power resources have greater access to decision-making

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Cosmopolitan democracy

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Democratization of global governance

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Raison d'etat

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Reason of state- a dual moral standard

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Balance of Power

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Survival of a state or a number of weaker states dependent on the joining of forces into a formal alliance

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Realism

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All states find themselves in anarchy and must use a Raison d'etat and the balance of power to achieve self-help, survival and statism

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Classical Realism

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Drive for power is human nature, often about the struggle for belonging

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Structural Realism

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Drive for power is due to the anarchy between states

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Offensive Realism

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Structural realist view that a state is power seeking

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Defensive Realism

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Structural realist view that a state is security seeking

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Neoclassical realism

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Places domestic policy between the distribution of power and foreign policy behaviour

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Statism

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The state is the main actor in IR

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Survival

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The pre-eminent goal of a state is survival

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Self-Help

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Because there is no higher authority to prevent and counter the use of force

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Security Dilemma

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The increase of security in one state causes insecurity in others

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Collective Security

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Liberal idea, all states unite to protect against a wide range of threats

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Rational Choice Realism

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International Relations is a bargaining process

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Positive Liberalism

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Advocate interventionist policies and international institution

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Negative Liberalism

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Prioritizes toleration and non-intervention

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Democratic Peace Theory

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Liberal states with common political theories will not fight each other

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Neo-liberalism

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Shares core assumptions of realism, difference is how international institutions are viewed

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Collective Defense

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An alliance based on a specific threat, as opposed to the wide range of threats of collective security

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Social Constructivism

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Knowledge shapes how actors interpret and construct their social reality

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Life Cycle of a Norm

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Emergence
Cascade
Internalization

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Marxism

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Not an explicit IR theory, the owners of production prosper, at the expense of the poor, capitalism is fundamentally flawed

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Historical Materialism

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Central features of the Marxist approach

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Economic Determinism

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Economic development is the motor of history

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Base and Superstructure

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Base- means and relations of productions- creates the
Superstructure- Institutions of society and political systems

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World System Theory

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One cannot just look at states, must look at whole world view

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Gramscianism

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Shift focus towards superstructural system, how hegemony produces socio-political system

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Critical Theories

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Varying conceptions of emancipation
Frankfurt- nature
Habermas- communication/radical democracy
Linklater- expansion of political communities moral boundaries

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New Marxism

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A revisitation of Marxist writings, critical of world system theories and globalization. Historical change is b.c of transformation in production

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Feminist

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A movement dedicated to women's political, social and economic equality

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Feminist Theory

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Goal to explain why women are subordinated

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Gender

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Set of socially constructed characteristics that define masculinity and femininity

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Liberal Feminists

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Equality can be achieved through removal of legal obstacles

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Feminist Social Constructivism

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How ideas about gender shape world politics

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Feminist Critical Theories

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Ideas and material structure shape lives in gendered ways

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Post-modern Feminists

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Men have been seen as knowers, and subjects of knowledge, which gives the power

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Post-colonial Feminists

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Feminists too focused on the west

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Gender Mainstreaming

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How a policy will affect gender equality