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| anarchical political system |
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| no central authority to make rules, enforce, or resolve disputes about actors in political system |
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| degree of balance of imbalance of power in the global or regional system |
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| international system with two roughly equal actors or coalition of actors, two poles |
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| cognitive decision making |
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| making choices within the limits of what you know |
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| Mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information |
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| US policy that sought to contain communism during the cold war |
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| event that is surprise to decision makers, evokes a sense of threat/peril, and must be responded to quickly |
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| a cold war policy involving the US, the USSR, and China which soughtt open up relations among the countries and ease tension |
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| close relation and dependence of economies |
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| ethnic group in which a significant percentage of its members favor nation self-determination by making a new nation-state dominated by that group |
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| countries where all/most citizens give their primary political loyalty to an ethnic/religious group or something else. so fragmented can't govern effectively |
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| difference in gender in many dimensions, including foreign policy preference |
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| hegemonic power is single country/alliance that is so dominant it determines rules and norms of whole system |
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| range of psych strategies allow people to simplify complex decision (stereotypes, analogies) |
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| merger of international and domestic concerns and decisions |
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| minority population's demand to join its motherland, or when motherland claims the area where the minority is |
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| imperial overstretch theory |
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| idea that attempting to maintain global order through leadership as a hegemon, especially through military power, is detrimental to the hegemon's existence |
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| configuration of international system in which there is one power at the center that plays something less than a fully dominant role because of a range of external and/or internal restraints on its power |
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| country with a small population that can't survive economically without outside aid or that is inherently so militarily weak that it is an inviting target for foreign intervention |
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| countries in which there are two or more significant nationalities |
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| world political system where power is primarily held by four or more international actors |
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| nation that has substantial numbers of its people living in more than one state |
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| belief among post-WWII leaders that aggression must always be met firmly...appeasement will only encourage an aggressor (US thinks this lots) |
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| group of culturally and historically similar people who feel a communal bond and who feel they should govern themselves to at least some degree |
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| a term that is loosely applied to mean the interests of a country or its government as defined subjectively by those in power, but more accurately means interests of the people |
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| belief that the nation is the ultimate basis of political loyalty and that nations should have self-governing states |
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| politically organized territory that recognizes no higher law, and whose population politically identifies with that entity |
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| perceptual phenomenon that describes how an individual acts and responds when faced with specific types of situations |
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| a political doctrine that holds that sovereign political authority resides with the citizens of a state, its government, and, especially, its specific political leader, but do not surrender ultimate sovereignty |
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| an actor in the international system that has enough military, economic, and/or diplomatic strength to often have an important role in determining the rules and operations of the system. (can be single country or alliance/bloc) |
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| tendency during a crisis of political and other leaders, legislators, and the public to vie strong support to a chief executive and the policy that leader has adopted in response to crisis |
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| anyone who believes countries operate in their own self-interest and that politics is a struggle for power |
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| operating according to the belief that politics is based on the pursuit, possession, and application of power |
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| concept that people should have the opportunity to map their own destiny |
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| a nation that does not exercise political control over any state |
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| treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War 1648. signals the birth of modern state system, end of theoretical subordination to the Roman Catholic Church/Holy Roman Empire. |
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| concept that in order to arrive at satisfactory international agreements, a country's diplomats have to deal with the other country's negotiations and legislators, interest groups, and other domestic forces at home |
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| a type of international system that describes a single country with complete global hegemony |
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