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| A paradigm based on the premise that world politics is essentially and unchangeably a struggle among self-interested states for power and position undr anarchy, with each competing state pursuing its own national interests. |
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Power
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Relative
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The ability of a state to control the behavior of others
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Need other people to be powerful over-I'm stronger than you
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Depends on what everyone has- I'm stronger than you, until you get a more powerful weapon than me
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| The state has supreme authority domestically and independence internationally |
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| No overarching authority, you don't know what others will do, helping and expecting help is bad. There is uncertainty and distrust, but it is not chaos. |
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Realist foreign policy-all states engage in it.
- Look out for national interests- security and power
- no morality in world politics
- look out for #1
- never try to do "good"
- strategic behavior- calculate power and behavior of others
- Prudence
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| the political, economic, ideological or cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups, regardless of the explicit consent of the latter; the predominance of one political unit over others |
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| A condition in which the global system has a single dominant power or hegemon capable of prevailing over all other states. |
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| A condition in which power in concentrated in two competing centers so that the rest of the states define their allegiances in terms of their relationships with both rival great power superstates, or "poles" |
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| The distribution of global power into three or more great-power centers, with most other statesallied with one of the rivals. |
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Balancing
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- External
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Several actors banning together to balance out one actors increase in power.
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Building domestic forces, economy, military, etc.
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Forming aliances
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| Aligning with the threat (sinding with the strong/whoever you think is going to win) |
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| An approach that relies on self-help, independent stratigies in foreign policy. |
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| Cooperative approaches to managing shared problems through collective and coordinated action. |
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| the tendancy for hegemons to sap their own strength throguh costly imperial pursuits and military spending that weaken their economies in relation to the economies of their rivals. |
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Core of Realism
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- Statism
- Survival
- Self-help
- Anarchy
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| A policy of withdrawing from active participation with other actors in world affairs and instead concentrating state efforts on managing internal affairs. |
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| The propensity for actions undertaken for national security to have the unintended consequences of provoking realiatory attacks by the target when relations later sour. |
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| The result of Power Balance |
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| The result of Power Imbalance |
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| 2 Kinds of Distribution of Power |
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- Balance-of-Power
- Bandwagoning
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| Actors that have a legitamate monopoly on the use of force. |
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