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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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| 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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| the general psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one's preexisting beliefs (cognitions) and new information. |
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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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| the decisions governing authorities make to realize international goals. |
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| an individual, group, state, or organization that plays a major role in world politics |
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| the factors that enable one actor to manipulate another actor's behavior against its prefernces. |
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| a state's supreme authority to manage internal affairs and foreign relations. |
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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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| a collectivity whose people see themselves as members of the same group because they share the same ethnicity, culture,or language. |
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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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| people whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship. |
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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 peopls). |
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| Individual Level 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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| an analytical approach that emphasizes how the internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behaviors. |
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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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| an analytical approach that emphasizes the impact of worldwide conditions on foreign policy behavior and human welfare. |
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| the predominant patterns of behaviors and beliefs that prevail internationally to define the major worldwide conditions that heavily influence human and national activities. |
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| a conditions in which the units in the global system are subjected to few if any overarching institutions to regulate their conduct. |
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| the periodic reemergence of conditions similar to those that existed previously. |
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| the periodic reemergence of conditions similar to those that existed previously. |
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| the most powerful countries, militarily, and economically, in the global system. |
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