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56 Cards in this Set
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Hegemon
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A preponderant state capable of dominating the conduct of international ptx and econ relations.
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Peace of Westphalia
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1648
creation of state system |
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Congress of Vienna
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end of Napoleonic wars
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Concert of Europe
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1815
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Treaty of Versailles
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1919
end of WWI creation of the League of Nations |
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Bretton Woods
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1944
United Nations |
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NATO
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1995
after cold war |
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hegemonic stability theory
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A body of theory that maintains that the establishment of hegemony for glbal dominance by a single great power is a necessary condition for global order in commercial transaction and international military security
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structuralism
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The neorealist proposition that states' behavior is shaped primarily by changes in the properties of the global system, such as shifts in the balance of power, instead by individual heads of states or by changes in states' internal characteristics.
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nationalism
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A mind-set glorifying a particular state and and the nationality group living in it, which sees the states' interest as a supreme value.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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multi-lateral treaty, 1928, outlawed war as a method for settling inter-state conflict
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Appeasement
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A strategy of making concessions to another state in the hope that satisfied it will not make additional claims
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isolationism
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Policy of withdrawing from active participation with other actors in world affairs and instead concentrating state efforts on internal affairs
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multi-polarity
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distribution of global into 3 or more great power centers with most other states allied with one of the rivals
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Imperialism
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The policy of expanding state power through conquest and/or military domination of foreign territory
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Irredentism
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A movement by an ethnic national group to recover control of lost territory by force. Zapatistas!
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Yalta Conference
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1945, Allied victors resolved post-war territorial issues and voting procedures in the UN to collectively manage world order. (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin)
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Bi-polarity
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A condition in which power is concentrated in 2 competing centers
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Cold War
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1949-1991, USSR & US rivalry sought to contain each other's expansion and have their respective ideologies become the dominant one.
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Power Transitions
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A narrowing of the ratio of military capabilities between great power rivals that is thought to increase the probability of war between them.
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Sphere of Influence
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A region of the world dominated by a great power
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Security Regime
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Norms and rules for interaction agreed to by a set of states to increase security
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Domino Theory
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A metaphor popular during the Cold War that predicted that if one state fell to communism, its neighbors would follow suit.
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Uni-polarity
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A condition in which the global system has a single hegemon capable of prevailing over all other states
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Truman Doctrine
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US foreign policy that would use intervention to support our allies against communism. Sparked by Communist revolutions in Greece and Turkey.
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Containment
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Strategy to prevent great power rivals from using force to alter the balance of power and increase its sphere of influence
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Peaceful Coexistence
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Khrushchev's 1956 doctrine that war between capitalist and communist states is not inevitable, competition can be peaceful
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Détente
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Strategy seeking to relax tensions between adversaries to reduce the probability of war 1969 through 1980
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SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks)
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Two sets of agreements reached during the 1970s between the US and the USSR that established limits on the strategic delivery systems
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Carter Doctrine
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US willingness to use military force to protect its interests in the Persian Gulf, boycott of 1980 Moscow Olympics, and suspension of US grain exports to USSR
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Linkage strategy
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Taking into consideration a country's overall behavior to make a decision on a specific issues linking cooperation to rewards.
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Reagan Doctrine
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US promise to support anti-communist insurgents attempting to overthrow USSR backed governments
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Rapprochement
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In diplomacy, a policy seeking to reestablish normal cordial relations between enemies
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End of History
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Francis Fukuyama's thesis that we have reached an end in the debate about the best government and economy in the realization of western democracy and capitalism.
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Soft Power
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Capacity to co-opt through such intangible factors as popularity of a state's values and institutions as opposed to hard power -- coercing through military might
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Imperial Overstretch
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Phrase coined by Paul Kennedy about the tendency of hegemonic to extend their might through costly imperial pursuits and military spending beyond what they can sustain.
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Power Balance
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Division of global military and economic capabilities among more than one center or dominant superpower.
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Selective Engagement
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Great power grand strategy using economic and military power to influence only important particular situations, countries, or global issues. Balancing global policeman and isolationist tendencies.
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Entente
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Agreement between states to consult one another and take a common course of action if one is attacked by another state
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Concert
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Cooperative agreement and design and plan among great powers to manage jointly the global system.
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Multi-lateralism
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NATO, cooperative approach to solving shared problems through collective and coordinated action
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Yoshida Doctrine
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Japan's traditional security policy of avoiding disputes with rivals, preventing foreign wars by low-military spending and promoting economic growth through foreign trade. Article 9 of their constitution.
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Cognitive Dissonance
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The general psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one's pre-existing beliefs and new information
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State Sovereignty
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A state's supreme authority to manage internal affairs and foreign relations
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State
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Independent legal entity with a government, exercising exclusive control over the territory and population it governs
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Nation
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A collectivity whose people see themselves as members of the same group -- ethnically, culturally, or linguistically.
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Individual level of analysis
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Emphasizes psychological and perceptual variables motivating people
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State level of analysis
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Emphasizes how internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behaviors.
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Global level of analysis
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Emphasizes the impact of world-wide conditions on foreign policy behavior and human welfare
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Nation
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A collectivity whose people see themselves as members of the same group -- ethnically, culturally, or linguistically.
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Anarchy
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Condition in which the units in the global system are subjected to few, if any, over-arching institutions to regulate their conduct.
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Individual level of analysis
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Emphasizes psychological and perceptual variables motivating people
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State level of analysis
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Emphasizes how internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behaviors.
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Global level of analysis
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Emphasizes the impact of world-wide conditions on foreign policy behavior and human welfare
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Anarchy
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Condition in which the units in the global system are subjected to few, if any, over-arching institutions to regulate their conduct.
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Great Powers
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Most powerful countries militarily and economically in the global system.
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