Chapter 7 Flashcards
Security Dilemma
The difficult choice faced by states in anarchy between arming, which risks provoking a response from others, and not arming, which risks remaining vulnerable
Human Aggression
The view that aggression is innate in many species of animals including humans
Imperialism
A situation in which one country controls another country or territory
Nationalism
The doctrine that recognizes the nation as the primary unit of political allegiance
Fog of War
A phrase coined by Prussian strategist Karl von Clausewitz to characterize the difficulties in controlling war once it starts.
Permissive Conditions
Anarchy (top of the funnel of causation model)
Underlying Causes
Distribution of power, capitalism, human nature (second level of funnel)
Collective Security
A doctrine nominally adopted after WWI that specified that when one state committed agression all other states would join together to attack it
Peacekeeping
The introduction of foreign troops or observers into a region, in order to increase confidence that states will refrain from the use of force
Peace enforcement
the use of military force to compel an actor to cease or avoid some activity viewed as a threat to peace and security
Proximate Cause
An event that immediately precedes an outcome and therefore provides the most direct explanation of it & (crises, misperceptions, madmen last level of funnel before war)
Expected Utility
A variant of the rational actor mode. The theory asserts that leaders evaluate policies by combining their estimation of the utility of potential outcomes with the likelihood that different outcomes will result from the policy in question
Power Transition Theory
A theory that postulate that war occurs when one state becomes powerful enough to challenge the dominant state and reorder the hierarchy of power within the international system
