Details Title: MIDTERM TWO - INT'L POLITICS Description: key concepts Total Flash Cards: 23 Created: 11/03/2008 20:56:51		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional International Studies Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Three Cores of Liberalism Definition Social/Individual, Political, Economic Term Liberalism is married to... Definition free trade Term Theory of democratic peace Definition The theory that its not in the interest of democratic states to go to war with each other Term Complex Interdependence Definition The neo-liberal construct of a conflict free system -where national boundaries exists along interdependence Term Regime Definition sets of implicit principles around which expectations converge within international policitcs Term Reification Definition the reducing of humans into things -workers -widgets Term two tiers to the vanguard Definition -intellectuals, -the party Term Cell Structure Definition provides leadership that can't be penetrated by the police (democratic centralism) Term united front strategy Definition communists must start by joining all disaffected elements of the old regime -follow 1st rev with a seconds so you stay intact and throw out any other rev forces Term nationalism Definition a feeling of contemporary we-ness based off a common background of shared experiene Term social fantasy Definition the creation of myths (history) to render the person willing to die for their country -making the people powerful Term Tribalism Definition totems and taboos, totem -the visual symbol of the group invested with power Term ethnic crystalization Definition groups developing their own identities apart from the nation they belong to - carved out of existing states Term ethnie Definition a named human population with a myth of common ancestry shared memories and cultural elements and a link with a historic territory or homeland and a measure of solidarity Term empire Definition the organized and autocratic power -an authority that transcends natural unities of one community controlling others Term neo-empire Definition any nation's effective control or domination or influence direct or indirect of any one country over another Term hegemons Definition realists entities grounded on realism Term monroe doctrine Definition policy of US for all foreigns to keep out of the Western Hemisphere -out of bounds for European geo-political exchanges - and the US in return will stay out of the balance of power euro politics Term new level of analysis Definition Bureaucratic politics! Term MAD Definition mutual assured destruction Term NUTS Definition nuclear utilization theories Term star wars Definition strategic defense initiative works if its married to a first strike strategy Term Definition