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| A broad intellectual tradition that explains international relations in terms of power |
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| English philosopher of the 1600s. Wrote Leviathan. Thought humans can coexist only by creating government. Thought of life as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. |
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| In terms of international relations, power can be changed into another form of power. For example, and economic power can use their money to buy tanks, thus creating military power |
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| A lack of a central government that can enforce rules |
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| A state's right, at least in principle, to do whatever it wants within its own territory |
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| States ensure own security > Threat to other states > Others build up defense in response > Overall security is decreased |
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| The general concept of one or more states' power being used to balance that of another state or groups of state |
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| China, France, Russia, U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Japan |
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| Some large but not highly developed, some small but serve special capabilities. Canada, Italy, India, Brazil, Israel, Spain |
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| The way in which power is distributed in the international community |
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| Three great centers of power |
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| A theory that the largest wars result from challenges to the top position in the status hierarchy, when a rising power is surpassing (or threatening to surpass) the most powerful state. |
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| The holding by one state of a preponderance of power in the international system, so that it can single-handedly dominate the arrangements by which international political and economic relations are handled |
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| Hegemonic Stability Theory |
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| The argument that regimes are most effective when power in the international system is most concentrated |
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| The treaty that ended the Thirty Years War. Established principles of Sovereignty, Territorial integrity, Legal equality, Nonintervention, and Political/religious self-determination |
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| An agreement or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. |
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| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
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| An intergovernmental alliance founded in 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. |
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| A Soviet led Eastern European military alliance that opposed NATO. Founded in 1955 and disbanded in 1991 |
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| US-Japanese Security Treaty |
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| A bilateral alliance between the U.S. and Japan, created in 1951 against potential Soviet threat to Japan. The U.S. maintains troops in Japan to defend it if attacked, and Japan pays the U.S. to offset half the cost of maintaining the troops |
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| A movement of third world states, led by India and Yugoslavia that attempted to stand apart from the U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the Cold War |
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| The threat to punish another actor if it takes a certain negative action |
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| The use of force to make another actor take some action |
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| A reciprocal process in which two or more states build up military capabilities in response to each other |
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| Actors conceived of as single entities that can "think" about their actions coherently , make choices, identify their interests, and rank interest in terms of priority. |
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| A branch of mathematics concerned with predicting bargaining outcomes. |
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| A situation modeled by game theory in which rational actors pursuing their individual interests all achieve worse outcomes than they could have by working together |
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| Two powers ir rival alliance bloc |
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