Big Themes Flashcards
1
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Security
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- Different types (e.g. environmental, economic, human, ‘traditional’)
- As an issue of National Interest / Framing
- Geopolitical context effects how we view security
2
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Role of Public / Media / Civil Society
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- Agenda setters
- Does the public define public interest, or the media?
- Celebrity Diplomacy
- Role of NGOs (think Axworthy and Landmines)
- soft power
3
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Power
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- Who has it? Who wants it? What kind of power is it?
- Hard v. Soft Power
- What constitutes power?
- Realists: Hard power
- Liberals: Multilateralism
- Constructivism: Setting Normative Values
4
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International & Domestic Structures
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- Where are the boundaries? They are blurred
- e.g. Work-a-day groups, epistemic communities
- How do domestic institutions effect International decisions?
- e.g. US State Dept. and Keystone
5
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Actors
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- What type of actor? domestic, international, non-governmental
- who are the actors involved? what institutions are they under? what are their interests?
6
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Global Governance
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- states working within IOs / Regimes / Informal Standards & Norms
7
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Ideological Differences Between Nations
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- What do these mean for states involved
- Realism: Conflict
- Liberalism: ‘troubled peace’
- Constructivism: different identities
8
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National Identity and Reputation
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- how people perceive themselves effects how they act on a global scale
- Very important to Constructivism
- Path-Dependency: limited by identity
9
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Structure and Agency
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- Important to understanding actor/state behavior
- Important in-particular to liberalism and Constructivism
10
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National Resources
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- provides capacity to a state
- e.g. Canada has oil ergo it can participate in those debates
- Alters state interests
- e.g. proximity to Canadian Arctic gives Canada an interest in Arctic
11
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Uni / Bi / Multi Lateralism
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- Uni can be problematic for IR
- Realism
- Bi / Multi lend to legitimacy of states
- Liberalism
- How a state identifies itself will effect its approach
- Constructivism
12
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Global Hegemony & Power
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- Power (Hard & Soft)
- Middle Power (e.g. holding soft power)
- Satellite Power (e.g. an extension of superpower)
13
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Globalization
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- Internationalization of policy
- blurring of lines between domestic and int.
- growing interconnectedness of the two
14
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Duties and Rights
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- Questions of Humanitarian aid? R2P?
- When is it a state’s duty to intercede? How solid are universal rights?
- e.g. Rwanda Genocide
15
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Economic Diplomacy
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- economics as tools of FP (e.g. sanctions)
- Question of the effectiveness of sanctions
- e.g. Crimea and EU / Ru relations
- Sanctions as additions to other FP actions
- What economic interests do given actors have?
