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- International Politics
- politics in the absence of a common sovereign, often called anarchic
- liberalism
- a global society taht functions alongside with states adn sets part of the context for states
- Marxism
- predictions of class conflict among major capitalist states
- counterfactual
- what would have happened if this had occured instead of this ?
- Dependancy Theory
- predicted that the wealthy countires in the "center" of the global marketplace would control and hold back poorer countries
- Structure
- refers to the distribution of power of a system
- Richard Falk ?
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transitional problems (like AIDS, drugs) will produce new nonterritorial loyalties and willl change the state system which has been dominant. (Liberal Theory)
- 3 Levels of Analysis
- individual, state, international system
- Appeasement
- a policy choice to allow for changes in the balance of power that benefit a rival state.
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World Imperial System
example ? -
one government dominant over most of the world.
i.e. Roman Empire - Henrique Cardoso
- Dependancy Theorist - turned to liberal policies of increasing dependence on glboal markets after elected president of Brazil
- hegemonic stability theory
- imbalanced power produces peace.
- Differences between collective security and balance of power.
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-agressive polices of a state rather than its policy
-alliances were not formed in advance
-designed to be global with no neutrals/free riders - sovereignty
- legal supremecy within a given territory
- Alliances
- formal or informal arrangements that soverign states enter into with each other in order to ensure their mutual security.
- Feudal System
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human loyalites and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundries
i.e. West after Roman Empire - Cosmopolitans (Role of Morality)
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see int'l politics not just as a scoeity of states but as a soceity of individuals.
- Hegemon
- preponderant power
- Constructvists
- criticize realism/liberalism for their inability to adequately expalin long -term change in politics. draw upon diffferne fields and disciplines to examine the processes by which leaders people and cultures alter their preferences, and learn new beahvior.
- Kenneth Waltz / Rober Keohane
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Neo-realist / Neo-liberal
developed models of states as rational actors constrained by the international system - Anarchic System of States
- current system - relatively cohesive states, no higher government above them
- extraterritoriality
- exemption from local legal jurisidiction
- Skeptics (Role of Morality)
- moral categories have no meaining in international relations because there are no instruments to provide order. No sense of community.
- state of nature
- (Hobbes) a war of all against all because there is no higher ruler to enforce order.
- State Moralist (Role of Morality)
- international politics rests on a soceity of certain rules, although those rules are not always perfectly obeyed.
- Process
- refers to the patterns and types of interations among its units
- Social Darwnism
- the strong should prevail, thus short decisive wars won by the strong
- realist
- the central problem is war and the use of force, the central actors are states (Nixon/Kissinger)
- Secularism
- religion should be eliminated from public affairs.
- Just War Doctrine
- prohibits kililng of innocent civilians