Term
|
Definition
1. Increasing integration of the world in terms of communications,culture, and economics.
2.the changing subjective experiences of space and time accompanying this process
Many trends, including expanded international trade, telecommunications, monetary coordination, multinational corporations, technical and scientific relations between the world's rich and poor countries. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Groups working together having to forgo individual needs.
Collective action
free riding
burden sharing
tragedy of the commons
prisoner's dilemma |
|
|
Term
| Dominance( solution to collective goods problem) |
|
Definition
Establishing a power hierarchy those on top control those below.
Members of a group can fight over "status hierarchy"
Social conflicts in favor of highest ranking
Maintain status by having good alliances |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Rewarding behavior that contributes to the group by punishing behavior that pursues self interest at the expense of the group.
(Disadvantage) Downward spiral as each group punishes each other believing to be right.
fuels arms races |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Does not rely on self interest. Members care about others enough to sacrifice their own interests for the benefit of others |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
States right to do what it wants in it's own territory.
MUST HAVE 1. Territory
2.Population
3.Gov't |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Distinct spheres of international activity within which policy makers of various states face conflicts and sometimes achieve cooperation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A difference in preferred outcomes in a bargaining situation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A subfield of IA that focus on questions of war and peace |
|
|
Term
| International Political Economy (IPE) |
|
Definition
| The study of politics and trade and other economic relations between other transnational forces |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that exercises sovereignty on its territory |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the set of relationships among the world's states, structured according to certain rules and patterns of interaction. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Groups of people who share a sense of national identity, usually including a language and culture- should have their own states |
|
|
Term
| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
|
Definition
| The size of a state's total annual economic activity |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Actors other than state governments that operate either below the level of state or across state borders |
|
|
Term
| Intergovernmental organization (IGO) |
|
Definition
| An organization like the UN whose members are state governments. |
|
|
Term
| Nongovernmental Organization(NGO) |
|
Definition
| A transnational group or entity that interacts with states, multinational corporations and other NGO's |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Between the relatively rich industrialized countries of the North and the relatively poor countries of the South.
(Most important geographical element at the global level of analysis) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Woodrow Wilson's creation from the 14 points speech. US did not join. Cooperation of nations such as the UN. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Let Germany occupy part of Czechoslovakia. Appeasement for Hitler not to invade anything else. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hostility between the Us and Russia, conflicts never actually escalated between the two countries. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A policy adopted in the late 1940's. Attempting to keep communism from spreading and supporting anything/ anyone willing to do that. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A rift in the 60's between the communist powers of the soviet union and china, fueled by China's opposition to soviet moves toward peaceful coexistence with the US. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A meeting between heads of state. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A superpower crisis sparked by the soviet union's installation of medium range missiles in Cuba. Closest to nuclear war with USA. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| States supporting and supplying opposition in civil wars |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The exercise of power by states toward each other. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Emphasizes international law, morality, and international organizations, rather than power alone. Focus more on how things should be. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The ability to get another actor to do what it would not otherwise have done. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The use of geography as an element of power |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A term that implies not complete chaos or absence of structure and rules, but rather the lack of a central government that can enforce rules. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| shared expectations about what behavior is considered proper. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A state's right, at least in principle, to do what it wants within its own territory; traditionally, sovereignty is the most important international norm |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A situation in which states' actions taken to ensure their own security>Threaten other states. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The general concept of one or more states power being used to balance that of another state or group of states. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Generally considered the half dozen or so most powerful states |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (Structural realism) patterns of international events in terms of the system structure- the international distribution of power- rather than in terms of the internal makeup of individual states. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An international system with typically five or six centers of power that are not grouped into alliances |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The largest wars result from challenges to the top position in the status hierarchy, when a rising power is surpassing the most powerful state. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One state's holding a preponderance of power in the international system allowing it to single-handedly dominate the rules and arrangements by which international, political and economic relations are conducted. |
|
|
Term
| Hegemonic Stability Theory |
|
Definition
| Hegemony provides some order similar to a central government in the international system:reducing anarchy, deterring aggression, promoting free trade. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The ease with which the members hold together an alliance. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The distribution of the costs of an alliance among members; conflicts that may arise over such a distribution. |
|
|
Term
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO |
|
Definition
| Founded in 1949 to deter Soviet power in Europe. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A soviet lead Eastern European military alliance founded in 1955 and disbanded in 91. Opposed NATO |
|
|
Term
| U.S.- Japanese Security Treaty |
|
Definition
| A bilateral alliance. Us maintains nearly 35,000 troops in Japan. Japan pays the US. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| During the Cold war, standing apart from the U.S./ Soviet rivalry. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Uses a threat to punish another actor if it takes a certain negative action. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Sometimes used after Deterrence fails, The threat of force to make another actor take some action. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A reciprocal process in which two+ states build up military capabilities in response to each other. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Those who wield power while engaging in statecraft |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The interests of the state itself |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Calculating costs incurred by a possible action and the benefits it is likely to bring. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A branch of mathematics concerned with predicting bargaining outcomes. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One player's gain is by definition equal to the other's loss. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Rational players choose moves that produce an outcome in which all players are worse off than under a different set of moves. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Multinational Corporations( MNCs) |
|
Definition
companies that span multiple countries
(Wal-Mart) (Toyota) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Us financial aid to rebuild European Economies |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| First took place in Geneva in 1955. Thaw in relations between superpowers. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The mutual dependence between states. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A set of rules,norms,and procedures around which the expectations of actors converge in a certain issue(arms control,international trade) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
The formation of a broad alliance of most major actors in an international system for the purpose of jointly opposing aggression by any actor.
Comes from Liberal Institutionalism |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
The Theory that
Democracies don't fight with other Democracies
Democracies go to war with Autocracies
Autocracies fight other Autocracies |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A fast growing approach. Asking about how state's construct their interests through their interactions with one another. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A branch of socialism, a theory that holds that the more powerful classes oppress and exploit the less powerful by denying them their fair share of the surplus they create. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The development and implementation of peaceful strategies for settling conflicts- using alternatives to violent forms of leverage. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Most conflict resolution uses a third party whose role is the mediation between two conflicting parties. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
The glorification of war, Military force, and violence through TV, films, books, Political, speeches.
2. THe structuring of society around war |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Progress is being made through UN. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| People taking to the streets in protest against war and militarism. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Women are in certain ways different from men. Not necissarly biological/Could be socialized. Women nurturing and less confrontational more cooperative. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Differences between men and women are trivial and non existant. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Sex+Gender not the same thing. Women take on roles assigned by the general population. Women are assumed to be nurturing so they go into child care and that becomes the expectation. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Women are 10 percentage points lower than men on average in their support for military actions. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A common starting point for studying the decision makin process. Decision makers
1. Set goals,
2. Evaluate their relative importance
3. Calculate the costs and benefits and lower costs. |
|
|
Term
| Organizational Process Model |
|
Definition
Foreign policy decision makers
1. skip the labor-intensive process of identifying goals and alternative actions.
2. Instead they standardized responses. or standard operating procedures. |
|
|
Term
| Government Bargaining Model |
|
Definition
| Foreign policy decisions result from the bargaining process among various government agencies with somewhat divergent interests in the outcome. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| taking only some kinds of info and not others |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| taking only some kinds of info and not others |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| subconscious filters through which people put the information coming in about the world around them. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Picking the very best option |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| People usually work on problems until they come up with a "good enough" option that meets some minimal criteria. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Decision makers go through two stages
1> EVALUATION PHASE. assess the options and choose one.
2> REFERENCE POINT. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Military-Industrial Complex |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Public Opinion"rally 'round the flag" syndrome |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Diversionary Foreign Policy |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| US Trade Representative( USTR) |
|
Definition
Michael From an.
Negotiates Free trade on behalf of US
Expl: NAFTA |
|
|
Term
| Director of National Intelligence(DNI) |
|
Definition
General James Clapper
post 9/11 creation
Take intel and assemble them into briefing to tell President |
|
|
Term
| National Economic Council (NEC) |
|
Definition
Gene Spurling
created by clinton admin |
|
|
Term
| National Security Council(NSC) |
|
Definition
Susan Rice- National security advisor. Was us ambassador to un. Staff of experts.
Post ww2 creation. |
|
|
Term
| Department of Defense(Pentagon) |
|
Definition
| Chuck Hagel( senator nebraska, republican) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Jacob Lou( US gov't rep@ international Monetary fund |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Department of state. Maintains us foreign policy abroad
Foreign service officers
Us embassy |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Foreign policy regarding nuclear weapons |
|
|
Term
| Department of Agriculture |
|
Definition
Demands by 3rd world countries for Us and Eu to end subsidies.
TOM VILSACK |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| National Ocienic Atmospheric Association |
|
|
Term
| Central Intelligence Agency |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Ben Bernenke> Janet Yeller
Controls the supply of money. Sets short term interest rate. |
|
|
Term
| Us Agency for International Development(USAID) |
|
Definition
| Recently merged into state department. Administers foreign aid |
|
|
