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standard operating procedures
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rules for reaching decisions about particular types of situations
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unitary actor
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an agent in world politics (sovereign state) assumed to be internally united, so that changes in its internal circumstances do not influence its foreign policy as much as do the decisions that actor's leaders make to cope with changes in its global environment
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pulling and hauling games
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Individual players that may or may not represent multiple agencies
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theory
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empirical → how things work
normative → how things should work. |
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falsifiability
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preference for theories that can be tested, not theories that can be tested on faith
a good theory can be proven wrong: it indicates what evidence would refute its claim |
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parsimony
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a good theory simplifies reality: it focuses on an important phenomenon and contains all of the factors relevant for explaining it without becoming excessively complex.
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clarity
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a good theory is cleary framed: its concepts are precisely defined, cause and effect relationships governing observed patterns are adequately specified, and the argument underpinning those hypothesized relationships is logically coherent
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realism
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the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
the truth |
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liberalism
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a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
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levels of analysis
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individual- the psychological factors motivating people who make foreign policy decisions on behalf of states and other global actors
state- emphasizes how the internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy global- impact of international structures and processes on the behavior of global actors |
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anarchy
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a state of lawlessness and disorder
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non-state actors
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transnationally active groups other than states such as international organizations (IGOs) and nongovernmental organization (NGOs)
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