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| an agressive action toward one state is countered by all other states as if they were all under attack. |
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| Systemic, Interstate, Domestic, Bureaucratic, Individual |
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| The fundamental principle underlying contemporary interstate relations. |
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| States ensure their survival while maintaing or increasing their power in an anarchic system. |
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| states use internal efforts to balance power such as increasing military power. |
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| when states take external measures to increase their security by forming alliances. |
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| joining the dominate side in order to share victory or appease a higher power. |
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| a state with a dominant position in the international system which has the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests. |
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| not belonging specifically to a state |
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| is a relationship in which each member is mutually dependent on the others. |
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| A state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. |
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| the actions of states only in respect to power balances and without regard to other factors, such as economics. |
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| what international actors look at in determining their interests, weighing out the total effects of a decision on the state or organization and acting accordingly |
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| They are international actors, and sometimes, when formally organized, many of them can be considered intergovernmental organizations. |
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| a theory of learning and an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways that people create meaning of the world through a series of individual constructs. |
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| shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so. |
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| the theory that democracies do not go to war with each other. |
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| to explain increased short-run popular support of the President of the United States during periods of international crisis or war. |
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| identifies a war instigated by a country's leader in order to distract its population from their own domestic strife |
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| resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. |
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| a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change. |
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| Rational Decision Making Model |
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| the process of realizing a problem, establishing and evaluating planning criteria, creating alternatives, implementing alternatives, and monitoring progress of the alternatives. |
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| Organizational Process Model |
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| Where formal organizations are the setting in which decisions are made, the particular decisions or policies chosen by decision-makers can often be explained through reference to the organization's particular structure and procedural rules. |
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