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What is state sovereignty?

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What is international anarchy?

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What is state-centrism in IR theorizing?

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What are the three levels of analysis in IR?

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What is materialism?

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What are the limitations of materialism?

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What is behaviorism?

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What are the limitations of behaviorism?

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What is the social construction of world politics?

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What is the nuclear proliferation debate?

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What is nuclear deterrence?

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Continuing the behaviour of another state by making threats if they were to change their behaviour

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What is nuclear compellence?

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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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What is soft power?

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What is soft/institutional balancing?

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What is a balance of power system?

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What is collective security?

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What are security communities?

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What are interest-based explanations?

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What are norm-based explanations

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What is the logic of consequences?

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What is the logic of appropriateness?

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What are psychological theories?

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What are the limits pf the rational-choice approach?

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What is a norm’s life cycle?

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What is the boomerang model?

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What are human rights?

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What is humanitarian intervention?

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What are ideological conflicts on world politics?

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What are civilizational conflicts in world politics?

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What is bargaining?

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What is cooperation?

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What are absolute gains?

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What are relative gains?

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How can game theory be used as an analytical tool?

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What are coordination games/problems?

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What are collaboration games/problems?

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What is a dominant strategy?

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What is a dominated strategy?

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What is a nash equilibrium?

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What is pareto optimality?

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What is an expected outcome?

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43
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What are international institutions?

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What are the three main causes of war?

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incomplete information, commitment problems, indivisibility

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What is the problem of incomplete information?

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What are commitment problems?

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What is the problem of indivisibility?

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What are strategies that mitigate bargaining problems that may lead to war?

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What is the democratic peace theory?

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What is democratic segregation and a league of democracies?

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Is major war obsolete?

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What are civil wars?

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What is terrorism?

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What is the security dilemma?

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What is balance of power theory?

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How do alliances form?

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What are balancing mechanisms?

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What is bandwagoning in the international system?

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What is the relationship between polarity and instability?

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What is Gilpin’s theory of systemic change and hegemonic war?

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What is critical strategic theory?

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What were the domestic regime changes and systemic changes at the end of the Cold War?

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What is socialization?

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What is the US-led international liberal order?

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What are the sources of stability under unipolarity?

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What are the sources of instability under unipolarity?

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Is China a revisionist rising power?

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What is the role of hegemonic war as a mechanism of systemic change?

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How is the US declining and China rising?

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