International Relations - Chpt 1

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interactions among autonomous territorial states that have no higher authority governing their behavior

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international relations

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Which war was declared the world's first digital war?

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War on Terror

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patterns of interaction among world's political actors

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international political system

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When do major turning points in world politics usally occur?

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at the conclusion of wars which typically disrupt or destroy preexisting international agreements

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Both of these forces simultaneously shape contemporary world politics

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continuity and change

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How do images simply reality?

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by exaggerating some features of environment while ignoring others

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a habitual way of organizing information

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mental map

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What is one way to facilitat negotiation between parties?

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clearing up misconceptions

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When do we overcome old thinking habits?

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when we experience discomfort of clinging to false assumptions

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What is one technique to examine world politics objectively?

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use an analytical framework

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analytical approach to the study of world politics that emphasizes the psychological factors motivating people who make foreign policy decisions on behalf of students and other global actors

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individual level of analysis

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analytical approach to the study of world politics that emphasizes how the internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behavior

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state level of analysis

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analytical approach to the study of world politics that emphasizes the impact of international structures and processes on the behavior of global actors

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systematic level of analysis

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deep, underlying factors whose impact develop over lengthy time span

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remote cause

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immediate factor

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proximate cause

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focuses on global system as a totality, emphasizing position

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macropolitical perspective

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focuses on individual actors, describing global system as an aggregate whole

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micropolitical approach

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all transnationally active groups other than states such as international organizations whose members are state and non-governmental organizations whose members are individuals and private groups from more than one state

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nonstate actors

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process by which new information is interpreted by comparing it to generic concepts stored in memory about certain stereotypical situations, sequences of events, and characters

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schematic reasoning

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tendency to emphasize situational factors when explaining ones own behavior while stressing dispositional factors when explaining some behavior in others

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attribution bias

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psychological tendency to deny or rationalize away descrepencies between ones preexisting beliefs and new information

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cognitive dissonance

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tendency of people in competitive interaction to perceive each other similarly-to see an adversary the same was as the adversary sees them

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mirror image

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belief that political loyalty lies with a body of people who share ethnicity, linguistic, or culture affinity, and perceive themselves to be members of the same group

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nationalism

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term coined by George Kennan for deterring expansion of the Soviet Union

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containment

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actions that depend upon what others are doing

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contingent behavior

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What are the main themes of international relations?

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military power, technology, economic development, identity, population/migration, and environment

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Which states are the last likely to go to war against each other?

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states that are the most economically developed

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What is the structure of an artistocracy?

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elite wealth in which the rich land owners decide on state policy

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What are things to consider in regards to uncontrollable state growth?

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international regulation or negotiations to reduce likelihood of financial breakdowns

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How do states deal with an increasingly aging or unproductive population?

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Importing laborers from other states, causing probable tension