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The Study of how global actors activities entail the exercise of influence to achieve and defend their goals and ideals, and how it affects the world at large

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World Politics

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The process of reasoning by which new information is interpreted according to a memory structure, a schema, which contains a network of generic scripts, metaphors, and simplified characterizations of observed objects and phenomena

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Schematic Reasoning

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The general Psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one's preexisting beliefs and new information.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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The tendency of states and people in competitive interaction to perceive each other similarly --to see others the same hostile way others see them

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Mirror images

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Prolonged competition fueled by deep-seated mutual hatred that leads opposed actors to feud and fight over a long period of time without resolution of their conflict.

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Enduring Rivalries

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An individual group, state, or organization that plays a major role in world politics

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Actor

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The factors that enable one actor to change another actor's behavior against preferences.

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Power

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A state's supreme authority to manage internal affairs and foreign relations.

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State Sovereignty

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An independent legal entity with a government exercising exclusive control over the territory and population it governs.

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State

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A collective whose people see themselves as members of the same group because they share the same ethnicity, culture, or language

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Nation

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People whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship

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Ethnic Group

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Institutions created and joined by states governments, which give them authority to make collective decisions to manage particular problems on the global agenda

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Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

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Transnational organizations of private citizens maintaining consultative status with the U.N: The include professional associations, foundations, etc.

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Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

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The different aspects of and agents in international affairs that may be stressed in interpreting and explaining global phenomena, depending on whether the analyst chooses to focus on "wholes" (the complete global system and large collectivities) or on "Parts" (Individual states or people.

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Levels of analysis

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An analytical approach that emphasizes the psychological and perceptual variables motivating people such as those who make foreign policy decisions on behalf of states and other global actors.

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Individual level of analysis

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An analytical approach that emphasizes how the internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behaviors.

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State level of analysis

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An analytical approach that emphasizes the impact of worldwide conditions on foreign policy behavior and human welfare.

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Global level of analysis

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A change in the characteristic pattern of interactions among the most active participants in world politics of such magnitude that it appears that one quote global system unquote has replaced another.

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Transformation

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The predominant patterns of behaviors and beliefs that prevail internationally to define the major worldwide conditions that heavily influenced human and national

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Global system

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the most powerful countries, militarily and economically, in the global system.

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Great powers

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A condition in which the units in the global system are subjected to few if any, overarching institutions to regulate their conduct.

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Anarchy

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The periodic emergence of conditions simular to those that existed previously

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Cycles