POLS101 Flashcards

Learn about the basics of political theory

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Revolution

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○ Rapid, fundamental and violent domestic change

○ Monumental, foundational political events

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3 types of authority

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○ traditional

○ charismatic

○ rational legal

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Power

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○ “the chance of a man to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action” — Weber

○ capacity or ability that each of us has to create and act

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Politics

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○ The means by which form is given to the life of a people

○ A freedom people grant themselves to rule themselves — Aristotle

○ the activity of “striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state” — Weber

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State (Weber)

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A human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory

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Traditional authorithy

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○ Long-standing beliefs and practices of a society

○ reasons: inheritance and religious beliefs

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Rational legal authority

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○ Laws and rules

○ the authority does not reside in the individual who happens to be in office but in the office

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Charismatic authority

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○ less stable

○ eventually turns to more stable types of authority

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Clinton mandate

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○ multilateral agreements and disregard for international law and treaties
○ public diplomacy wasn’t a high priority

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Bush

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○ hard power
○ dismissive attitude toward international institutions
○ unilateralism

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Obama time

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○ smart power

○ US leading by example

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Hard power

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○ ability to use a country’s resources (economic, military) to influence other factors

○ the application of military power to secure a national objective

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Smart Power

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○ combination of hard and soft power

○ involve the strategic use of diplomacy and persuasion in a cost effective way

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Soft power

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○ drawing on the resources that make a country naturally attractive to the world

○ the ability to attract or co-opt rather than coerce

○ many of its critical resources are outside the control of governments

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South Korea Soft Power

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○ widely praised Pandemic response

○ successful pop culture prestige

○ government uses popular artists for diplomatic reasons

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South Korea hard power

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○ tremendous economic growth

○ strong military

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Thomas Hobbes

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○ english philosopher and political theorist

○ wrote the leviathan

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Cold war

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○ 1947 - 1962

○ open yet restricted rivalry between the US and USSR

○ used political, economic and propaganda fronts

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Clinton’s foreign policy

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  • multilateral engagements but disregard for multilateral engagements
  • public diplomacy was not a high priority
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Bush Jr foreign policy

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  • unilateralism
  • promotion of American values
  • hard power
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Obama foreign policy

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: : smart power

: : leading by example

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American exeptionalism

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: : America is inherently different from other nations

: : declaration of independence putting the basis on America’s .uniquely. judeo Christian and religious character

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Militarism

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: : predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state

: : belief or desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military and use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values

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Pax Americana

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: : relative peace in the western hemisphere and later the world after the end of WWII

: : Marshakk plan

: : US occupies a special niche among developed nations

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Wilsonianism

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: : conviction that a leading priority of US foreign policy should be the promotion of democratic government around the world

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American revolution

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: : 1775 - 1783

: : American colonists VS UK

: : resulted in US independence