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| Renaissance pattern of kings assuming all power |
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| Theory that states form alliances to offset threatening states (Pre WWI by 1910 decayed) |
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| Interactions among countries |
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| Ability of one actor to get anoter to do it's bidding |
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| Interactions within countries |
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| No overriding power prevents sovereign states from conflicting |
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| Interaction of many components so that changing one changes the others |
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| Nation with far more power than others; able to wage all levels of warfare |
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| Making a theory for reality |
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| Application of military power |
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| System set up by 1648 Peace of Westphalia that made sovereignty the norm. |
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| Concept that each state rules is territory without interference |
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| Conservative restoration of balance of power after Napoleon |
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| Theory that peace is preserved when states know where they stand on a ladder of relative power |
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| Contrived, unstable balance of power from 1870 to 1914 |
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| In 1919 treaty that ended WWI |
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| Between WW I and II 1919-1939 |
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| The world divided into two power centers, as in the cold war (1945-1980s) |
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| The world divided into many power centers |
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| The world dominated by one power center |
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| Power distributed in layers; Top rich countries, middle rapidly industrializing lands as China, India, and Brazil; Third layer is in a 'zone of chaos' dominated by crime warlords and chronic instablility |
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| Two big powers dominate (US AND CHINA)considered a chimera |
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| Mythical beast composed of several unlike parts |
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| The world turning into a big capitalist market |
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| Theory that post Cold War world was divided into eight civilzations each based mostly on religion; Western(with European and North American branches), Slavic/Orthodox, Islamic, Hindu, Sinic(Chinese based), Japanese, Latin American, African |
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| country or nation, has sovereignty |
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| Modern nation-state able to enforce sovereignty |
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| Explanation of why things happen |
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| Explanation of why things happen supported by observable evidence |
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| Able to think clearly and test ideas against reality |
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| A widely accepted research model or way of studying things |
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| IR theory that emphasizes power and national interest |
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| what is good for a country as a whole in international relations; often disputed |
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| In realist thought, an ideological war unrelated to the true national interest |
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| In IR, presumption that countries can interact peacefully |
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| Adam Smith's theory that an economy corrects itself without government supervision;became US conservatism |
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| Group of 8/20 leading countries |
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| Mental Constructs formed by social interaction and convention, govern thinking |
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| Idea widely accepted that it seems to be a fact |
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| Janis' theory that group cohesion stifles doubt and dissent |
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| Abandoning absolute moral standards |
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| Militant, revolutionary form of socialism |
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| In Marxism, a big, incurable problem that rips the society apart |
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| Middle class, pejorative in Marxist usage |
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| In Marxism, large class of industrial workers |
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| Emergency loan to prevent corporation or government from collapsing |
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| Latin for "to whose benefit" or "who gains?" |
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| Gramsci's theory that capitalist control of culture keeps workers unrevolutionary. |
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| Revival or updating of a previous ideology or approach |
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| Drawn from a variety of sources |
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| Powers of the British government |
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| Can be empirically verified |
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| Cannot be empirically verified; depends on on intuition |
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| Not supporting a declared national interest with sufficient power |
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| Slogan calling for a US continental republic |
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| Spreading nation's power over other lands |
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| US avoidance of overseas involvement |
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| The 1941 Roosevelt-Churchill agreement on peace aims and basis of UN |
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| US aid to Allies in World War II |
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| Idealistic projection of US power to create a peaceful world |
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| The 1947 presidential call to aid countries under communist threat |
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| The 1947 call for massive US aid to war-torn Europe |
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| US policy of blocking expansion of Soviet power; framed by Kennan in 1947 |
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| US interests extending everywhere |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy's early-1950s accusations of treason in high places |
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| What kind of international system was before WWI? |
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| What kind of international system was there between WWI-WWII? |
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| anti-balance of war system |
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| What kind of system was there during the Cold War? |
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| What kind of system was Post-Cold War? |
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| Not too sure. Can be multipolar, zones of chaos, globalization, or clash of civilizations. |
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| International Relations depends a lot on _______. |
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| Some say that IR unfolds amid ___________ ____________. |
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| Power is one country's ability to get another country to do what it wants. |
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| It is mistaking theory for reality. |
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| Rational persuasion, economic, cultural, technological, and military are all types of _______? |
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| What type of power is only used as a last resort? |
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| What is the balance of power system? |
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| Changeable alliances that keep one state from becoming more powerful than another |
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| What is the hierarchy of power? |
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| Opposite of balance of power and acts to preserve peace. When nations know where they stand in power they are more likely to try to keep the peace. |
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| What usually happens to hierarchys? |
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| They are temporary and eventually overturned as weaker states gain power and dominant states lose it. |
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| If you change one part it has a ripple effect down the line. |
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| Who changed the system from the balance of power? |
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| Prussian Chancelor Bismark when he unified Germany. Ripple effect in the system. |
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