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| colonies and competers exist to serve the mother country |
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| Ended Thirty Years War. Began general recognition of sovereignty and nonintervention. Creation of modern state. |
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| States have ultimate authority within their borders |
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| The predominance of one nation-state over others |
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| "British Peace" Period of peace where Britain's economic and political power contributed to peace and open trade. |
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| Countries tied currancey to gold at a legally fixed price |
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| Treaty between Allies and Germany that ended WWI |
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| International security organization formed after WWI. Replaced by the UN |
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| Military alliance which brought together West Europe, USA, and Canada after WWII. Handles regional problems. |
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| Economic agreement to relatively low barriers on international trade |
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| Military alliance that brought together USSR and its allies. |
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| Process of shedding colonial possessions. |
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| the absence of a central authority to enforce laws and agreements |
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| Actors adopt policies that make at least one actor better off without making anyone worse off |
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| Actors must choose outcomes in which one is better off at the expense of the other. Redistributive. |
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| All actors benefit from all making the same choice. There is no incentive to cheat. |
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| Actors work together for common gain but have incentives to not comply with the argeements. |
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| Where one person benefits from a public good with contributing. |
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| Collective Action Problems |
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| When actors have incentives to collaborate but each act in anticipation that the other will pay the costs. |
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| Repeated interactions with the same actors |
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| The ability to make one side make concessions without have to make them yourself |
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| The threat or impostion of costs on other actors in order to change their behavior (military action, economic sanctions). |
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| "First mover" advantage that helps an actor secure a better bargaining position. |
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| Set of rules that structure political interactions |
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| Bargaining where at least 1 actor threatens to use force if their demands are not met |
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| the use of threats to influence the outcome of a bargaining interaction. |
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| set of outcomes both sides prefer to the outside option |
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| the effort to change the status quo through threat of force |
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| the effort to preserve the status quo through the use of force. |
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| situation where both parties lack information about the others interests/capabilities. |
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| the willingness for an actor to endure the costs to acquire some good. |
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| in crisis bargaining, the trade-off between trying to get a better deal and avoiding war. |
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| repercussions for failing to follow through with a threat/commitment |
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| collection of organizations which carry out tasks of goverence within state |
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| incentives that state leaders to start interational crises to rally public support at home. |
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