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30 Cards in this Set
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International Politics
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politics in the absence of a common sovereign, often called anarchic
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liberalism
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a global society taht functions alongside with states adn sets part of the context for states
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Marxism
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predictions of class conflict among major capitalist states
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counterfactual
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what would have happened if this had occured instead of this ?
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Dependancy Theory
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predicted that the wealthy countires in the "center" of the global marketplace would control and hold back poorer countries
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Structure
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refers to the distribution of power of a system
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Richard Falk ?
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transitional problems (like AIDS, drugs) will produce new nonterritorial loyalties and willl change the state system which has been dominant. (Liberal Theory)
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3 Levels of Analysis
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individual, state, international system
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Appeasement
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a policy choice to allow for changes in the balance of power that benefit a rival state.
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World Imperial System
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one government dominant over most of the world.
i.e. Roman Empire |
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Henrique Cardoso
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Dependancy Theorist - turned to liberal policies of increasing dependence on glboal markets after elected president of Brazil
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hegemonic stability theory
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imbalanced power produces peace.
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Differences between collective security and balance of power.
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-agressive polices of a state rather than its policy
-alliances were not formed in advance -designed to be global with no neutrals/free riders |
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sovereignty
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legal supremecy within a given territory
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Alliances
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formal or informal arrangements that soverign states enter into with each other in order to ensure their mutual security.
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Feudal System
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human loyalites and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundries
i.e. West after Roman Empire |
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Cosmopolitans (Role of Morality)
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see int'l politics not just as a scoeity of states but as a soceity of individuals.
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Hegemon
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preponderant power
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Constructvists
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criticize realism/liberalism for their inability to adequately expalin long -term change in politics. draw upon diffferne fields and disciplines to examine the processes by which leaders people and cultures alter their preferences, and learn new beahvior.
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Kenneth Waltz / Rober Keohane
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Neo-realist / Neo-liberal
developed models of states as rational actors constrained by the international system |
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Anarchic System of States
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current system - relatively cohesive states, no higher government above them
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extraterritoriality
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exemption from local legal jurisidiction
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Skeptics (Role of Morality)
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moral categories have no meaining in international relations because there are no instruments to provide order. No sense of community.
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state of nature
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(Hobbes) a war of all against all because there is no higher ruler to enforce order.
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State Moralist (Role of Morality)
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international politics rests on a soceity of certain rules, although those rules are not always perfectly obeyed.
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Process
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refers to the patterns and types of interations among its units
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Social Darwnism
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the strong should prevail, thus short decisive wars won by the strong
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realist
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the central problem is war and the use of force, the central actors are states (Nixon/Kissinger)
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Secularism
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religion should be eliminated from public affairs.
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Just War Doctrine
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prohibits kililng of innocent civilians
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