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22 Cards in this Set
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Interdependence |
As trade between states increase, the sates will find that they will become mutually dependent on one another for goods |
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Neoliberal |
States are unitary actors rationally pursuing their self-interests in a system of anarchy |
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International Political Economy |
Cooperation can created great benefits through trade |
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International Regime |
A set of rules, norms, and procedures around which the expectations of actors converge in a certain issue area (whether arms control, international trade, or Antarctic exploration) |
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Collective Security |
The formation of a broad alliance of most major actors in an international system for the purpose of jointly opposing aggression by any actor |
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Democratic Peace |
Democracies almost never fight each other |
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Constructivism |
Asks how states construct their interest through their interactions with one another |
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Postmodernism |
A late 20th century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of "art" |
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Subtext |
The hidden meanings not explicitly addressed in the text |
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Economic classes |
People having the same economic status |
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Marxism |
A branch of socialism; a theory that holds that the more powerful classes oppress and exploit the less powerful by denying them their fair share of the surplus they create. |
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Class Struggle |
The oppressed classes try to gain power in order to seize more of the wealth for themselves |
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Conflict Resolution |
The development and implementation of peaceful strategies for settling conflicts, using alternatives to violent forms of leverage |
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Mediation |
The use of a third party (or parties) in conflict resolution |
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Militarism |
The glorification of war, military force, and violence through TV, films, books, political speeches, toys, games, sports, and other such avenues (Also structuring society around war) |
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Positive Peace |
A peace that resolves the underlying reasons for war. Not a cease-fire, but a transformation of relationships. |
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World Government |
A centralized world governing body with strong enforcement powers |
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Peace Movements |
Movements against specific wars or against war and militarism in general. Usually involving large numbers of people and forms of direct action such as street protests |
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Difference Feminism |
A strand of feminism that believes general differences are not just socially constructed and that women are inherently less warlike than men (on average) |
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Liberal Feminism |
A strand of feminism that emphasizes gender equality and views the essential differences in men's and women's abilities or perspectives as trivial or nonexistent |
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Postmodern Feminism |
An effort to combine feminist and postmodernist perspectives with the aim of uncovering the hidden influences of gender in IR and showing how arbitrary the construction of gender roles is |
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Gender Gap |
Refers to polls showing women lower than men on average in their support for military actions, as well as for various other issues and candidates |
