Term
| real politik (four tenets) |
|
Definition
-secure your own country's interests first and worry about welfare of other countries second -countries should practice balance of power politics -The best way to maintain peace is to be powerful -you should never waste power on peripheral goals |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| take a longer-term view of national interest than realists |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| cultural group whose political connections are to the ruler or the group, not the territory |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| authority stems from political unit's law and system of government |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| multiple strong powers dominating world politics (especially after the Treaty of Westphalia--strong powers in europe) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| two major powers (US and USSR) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| policy of global opposition to the Soviet Union and other communist countries |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Martin Luther--seperated from the catholic church |
|
|
Term
| Treaty of Westphalia (1648) |
|
Definition
| ended the century long struggle between the imperial and catholic holy roman empire and the nationalist and protestant ethnic groups |
|
|
Term
| anarchical international system |
|
Definition
| an informal hierarchy based on power |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| relaxation of international affairs during cold war |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| cultural imperialism and globalization of western culture and ideals |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| international organizations that mediate disputes |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| intertwining of national economics inthe global economy |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| world is being integrated by the increased interchagne of goods and services |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| continuing to develop economically while simultaneously protecting the environment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1) individual level 2) state level 3) system level |
|
|
Term
| individual level analysis |
|
Definition
| the view that at the root it is people who make policy |
|
|
Term
| cognitive decision making |
|
Definition
| making decisions within the constraints of "bounded rationality" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| mental shortcuts that help us make decisions more easily |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| decision of france and great britain to appease nazi german when it threatened czechoslovakia |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the comparison of animal and human behavior |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| pressure within organizations to achieve consesus by agreeing with the prevailing opinon |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| study of humans as individuals and personal characterisitics help shape decision making |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| foreign policy that has an immediate and obvious domestic impac on americans |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| focuses on external restraints on foreign policy |
|
|
Term
| vertical authority structure |
|
Definition
| subordinate units are substantially regulated by higher levels of authority |
|
|
Term
| horizontal authority structure |
|
Definition
| there are few, if any, higher authorities and power is fragmented |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| no overarching authority to make rules, settle disputes or provide protection (international system) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| analyzing the impact of structures on policy making |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people who 1) share demographic and cultural similarities 2) posess a feeling of community 3) want to control themselves politically |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| sense of political self that makes people feel patriotic about their country, connected to a we-group and different from the they-groups |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a soverign political organization with: territory, population, and a government |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| occurs when a strong sense of cultural and political identity exists among a people and the formation of the nation precedes that of the state |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| when a nation overlaps the borders of two ore more states |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| when a nation is a minority in one ore more states and does not have a nation-state of its own and wants one |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a country so fragmented that it cannot be said to exist as a unified political or national entity (ex: afghanistan) |
|
|
Term
| positive nationalism (4 things) |
|
Definition
1) promotes democracy 2) discourages imperialism 3) allows for economic development 4) allows diversity and experimentation |
|
|
Term
| negative nationalism (5 things) |
|
Definition
1) reluctance to help others 2) exclusionsim 3) exceptionalism and xenophobia 4) internal oppression 5) external aggression |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the increasing integration of economics, communcations, and culture across national boundaries |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| social, economic, and political links among people and private organizations across national boundaries |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| reality is created by the ways that we think and by our discourse about our world |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| explains the course of international relations in terms of agents and structure |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the argument that women hve been left out of the process and even the conceptualization of world politics |
|
|
Term
| transnational advocacy networks (TANs) |
|
Definition
| groups of NGOs and IGOs that share an interest in a specific aspect of global society |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| someone who holds conservative religious values and often wishes to incorporate those values into national law |
|
|
