Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the expectation that states have ultimate authority within their territorial boundaries?
Sovereignty
What is a common national identity, language, ethnicity, culture, and history?
Nation
What is a central authority with the ability to make and enforce laws, rules, and decisions within a specified territory
States
What is the factor that explains who gets what, when, and how (compellance, deterance, asset and aspiration)
Power
What power is tangible and material?
Hard Power
What power is to persuade others to do or not to take certain actions?
Soft Power
What, as an example, is estimated global nuclear warhead in US?
Absolute Power
What power asks the questions “a lot?” “enough”?
Relative Power
What is the absence of central authority in the global system?
Anarchy
What are states, international organizations, international non-governmental organizations, and MNCs?
Actors
What are established by states, states are members, and they can be global or regional?
International Organizations
What has members that are primarily individuals, promotes particular causes, and started in France in 1971?
International Non-Governmental Organizations
What are private for-profit organizations operating in more than one country?
MNCs
What are the 3 Is?
- Interests
- Interactions
- Institutions
What is what actors want to achieve through political action?
Interests
What are ways in which 2 or more actors’ choices combine to produce political outcomes?
Interactions
What define the rules of the game?
Institutions
What is when at least one actor is better off relative to the status quo without making others worse off?
Cooperation
What are actions to ensure one’s own security that are perceived as threats to the security of other states?
Security Dilemma
What is an alliance between military leaders and the industries that benefit from international conflict, such as arms manufacturers?
Military-Industrial Complex
What is when actors decide how to divide something of value and one is better off than the other?
Bargaining
What are the 4 aspects of bargaining failure?
- Incomplete Information
- Credibility
- Commitment Problems
- Indivisible Goods
What are the 3 traits of credibility?
1.Brinkmanship
2. Tying Hands
3. Paying for power
What are 3 commitment problems?
- Bargaining over the future
- Preventative War
- Preemptive war
What is the approach to the brink of war through provocative actions?
Brinkmanship
What is when leaders show that they are determined and take costly steps to increase capabilities?
Paying for Power
What is bargaining for goods that are a source of future bargaining power?
Bargaining over the future
What is when it is better to fight in a war today in order to stop or slow the adversary from becoming stronger in the future?
Preventative War
What is the surprise attack that gives someone first-strike advantage?
Preemptive War
What is when both sides want something that cannot be easily divided or shared?
Indivisible Goods
What are institutions that help their members cooperate militarily in the event of war?
Alliance
What is a general assembly that includes all 193 members that answers any questions or any matters within the scope of the Charter of the UN and maintains international security and peace?
UN Security Council
What is consent of parties, impartiality, non-use of force except with authorization in self defense and defense of mandate?
Peacekeeping
What is government vs. rebel groups?
Civil War
What is the kind of civil war that seeks to create an independent state on territory carved from existing state?
Separatist
What is the kind of civil war that seeks to detach a region from one country and attach it to another country?
Irredentist
What are the 4 country level factors of civil war?
- Political Exclusion
- Repressive/Corrupt Government
- Poverty and Lack of Economic Opportunities
- Ethnic, Religious, or Language Differences and Discriminatory Policies
What are the 2 international factors of civil war?
- Foreign states may be arming/aiding rebels whom they support
- Foreign country has conflicts of interest with government
What are the 4 efforts to end civil wars?
- Peacekeeping
- Negotiations/Peace Agreement
- Long-term commitment to economic development and political stability
- emphasizes building goodwill among the population by providing security, jobs infrastructure, goods, and services
