Midterm
World Politics: Trend and Transformation by Charles W. Kegley, JR.
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- Poliheuristic Theory
- If the decided is against the implications of a choice, he will get rid of it even if it has the highest utility
- Thucydides
- "The strong do what they will, the weak will suffer as they must.'
- Hobbes
- The Leviathan. Relationships between States lack a global authority. A strong, central government is needed.
- Liberalism
- Focuses on the individual, negative freedoms (freedom from arbitrary power), positive freedom (protction, human rights), and democratic participation
- paradigm
- percieved pattern of reality or organizing principals
- Neoclassical Realism
- More focused on foreign and domestic policies.
- Epistemology
- The study of learning
- World System Theory
- Core (superpowers), Periphery (un-skilled), Semi-Periphery (mixture of skilled and unskilled)
- deduction
- test the theory
- Gap Hypothesis
- Each new medium increases the gap between the information rich and the information poor
- Expected Utility
- Draws from Rational choice, the choice that has the highest expected helpfulness.
- Machiavelli
- The Prince. It is better to be armed and feared then loved.
- Correlation vs. Causation
- Correlation is making a connection based on previous experiances, causation only looks at the cause
- Structural Realism
- anarchic self-help system that exerts independent influence on nations. Human nature is not an important concept.
- Induction
- Make and observation and create a theory
- Waltz
- founder of structural realism, created level of analysis
- Commercial Liberalism
- Peace through trade.
- Neoliberalism
- Accure concrete benifits through cooperation.
- Cybernetic decision-making
- The first choice that suffices
- Ontology
- How we see and understand the world
- Realism
- People are greedy and lust for power. It is impossible to get rid of this greed. States pursue only self-centered goals.
- levels of analysis
- System, State, Individual
- model
- identifies variables to test hypothesis
- Dyadic Democratic Peace Theory
- Democracies are as war prone as any States, but are more peaceful to other Democracies
- Wodrow Wilson
- League of Nations
- Wendt
- Social constructionism. Institutions constrain nations and reconstruct ideas.
- Kant
- Democratic Peace Theory
- monadic Democratic Peace Theory
- Democracies are inherently more peaceful.
- Prospect theory
- More worried about not lossing then gaining
- Morgenthau
- Politics Among Nations. Politics are governed by objective laws rooted in human nature