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40 Cards in this Set
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What is the international system.
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The organizations and processes that people and states use to interact across state borders.
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What is sovereignty?
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Means that states accept no political authority as superseding their own.
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What are perceptions and why are they important to understanding world events?
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-perceptions are attitudes and points of view resulting from a person’s particular cultural-historical, philosophical, ideology or religious preconceptions
-policy makers filter world events through their own perceptions |
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What is collective security?
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offers protection from "inside threats
-That all the peace-loving nations, including the most powerful, will band together to maintain international peace and law and that they will use their collective strength to deter or punish aggressors who would violate international peace and law. |
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detente
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-relaxation of tensions
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for over 40 years the post WWII international system was characterized as what?
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bipolar alliance system between the soviet union and their alliances
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Hegemonic power
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when one nation state has overwhelming dominating power
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Bipolar
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distributiuon of power between 2 nation-states`
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multipolarity
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power is distributed among several nation states
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balance of power
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the idea that peace is assured when nations military powers are distributed so that no one state is strong enough to threaten other states with its military strength
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What are the 4 fundamental interests of a nation?
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1. security
2. liberty 3. justice 4. welfare |
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What are the 3 patterns of foreign policy?
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-balance of power
-domination -multilateralism |
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Terrorism
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a war tactic uses violent incidents perpetrated by small numbers of people for the purpose of calling into question or destabilizing an existing political system
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What is conventional War?
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-what most people thing of
-command hierarchies -military forces of states |
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Diplomacy
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includes all the communications between two or more government or IGO's
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Negotiations
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takes place when officials talk to each other directly or through an intermediary
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What are interests?
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When persons, groups, organizations and states are able to use relationships or resources for their own benefit.
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Revisionist States
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when states aim to change their existing level of military power by accumulating more troops and weapons
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Status Quo states
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are satisfied with their existing level of power may feel threatened by a revisionist states power builup
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What is multilateralism
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involves groups of countries collectively solving problems and conflicts, usually through formal international organizations
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"just war"
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military action taken in self defense, abiding by accepted rules of warfare such as preventing the slaughter of civilians and pow's
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List the 5 categories of military actions
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1. Show of force
2. conventional War 3. Nuclear War 4. guerrilla war 5. Terrorism |
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Understanding why people decide to use war to get their way requires what?
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Knowing how the international system works.
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Define power?
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the ability of persons, groups, organizations and states to cause others to what they want
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What is the primary focus of the chapter?(13)
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The vital differences between domestic and international politics
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What are the principle organs of the United Nations?
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1. General Assembly
2. The Security Council 3. The economic and Social Council 4. The Trusteeship Council 5. The International Court of Justice 6. The Secretariat |
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What are the United Nations approaches to peace?
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1.Collective security
2. Peaceful settlement 3.Disarmament and arms control 4. preventative diplomacy (peacekeeping) 5. The grand debate 6.trusteeship and anticolonialsm 7. Functionalism |
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What is the theory of arms control and preventive diplomacy?
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Arms control- rests of achieving peace by significantly limiting and ultimately redusing armaments
Prevention Diplomacy- help smaller powers settle disputes peacefully, before they escalate |
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What is the European Union?
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Regional organization built on the foundation of free trade. Seeks total European economic integration
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What are some of the non-state actors who influence the international system?
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1. Nongovernmental organizations
2. Terrorist organization 3. Multinational corporations |
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What does chapter 14 explore?
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Attempt to organize our understanding of decision making in politics
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What are the 5 decision making models?
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1. Rational actor
2. Political Actor 3. Organizational actor 4. elitist actor 5. idiosyncratic actor |
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The notion that organizations, especially large organizations, are inevitably controlled by a small number of elites is known as:
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Elites
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What is the idiosyncratic actor model?
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the idiosyncratic actor model stresses the crucial role of the decision maker’s unique personality, emphasizing lederships dual roles: destructive and creative
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(p. 330) A clear-cut example of a destructive decision maker would be:
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-Stalin, Hitler and Hussein
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The struggle for power is the essence of which decision-making model?
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Political actor model
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Treaty of Westphalia
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-ended the 30 years war, recognized the independence of the Netherlands and Switzerland
-modern nation state system took shape |
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Ecocentrism
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values human and nonhuman world for its own sake.
Important aspects of an ecocentric approach |
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Human Welfare Ecology
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Movement for a safe, clean and pleasant human environment. Welfare stream have increasingly been citizens, consumers, and households concerned with the state of their local environment
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Resource Conservation
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Known as modern scientific and utilitarian approach to land management the “resource conservation” movement and has described it as “an unconstrained total-use approach, whose upshot is to leave nothing in its natural condition
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