International politics Exam 1
Realism - correct answer ✔Statism, Sovereignty of the state, survival, and
self help. The theoretical approach that analyzes all international relations as
the relation of the states engaged in pursuit of power. They see the
international system as anarchic or without a common power and they believe
conflict is endemic in the international system.
Constructivism - correct answer ✔An approach that concerns itself with the
centrality of ideas and human consciousness. They have examined world
politics and have been broadly interested in how the structure constructs the
actors' identities and interests, how their interactions are organized and
constrained by that structure, and how their very interaction serves to either
reproduce or transform that structure.
Peace of Westphalia - correct answer ✔1648 The treaties of Osnabruck and
Munster, which together ended the Thirty Years' War and were crucial in
deliminiting the political rights and authority of European Monarchs
Congress of Vienna - correct answer ✔A meeting of major European
Leaders (1814-1815) that redrew the political map of Europe after the end of
the Napoleonic Wars. The congress was an attempt to restore a conservative
political order in the continent.
Levels of Analysis - correct answer ✔Individual: leaders field experts
Domestic: Local and state specific field
Systematic: Factors involving multiple states
Global: challenge boundaries and sovereignty
, Hegemony - correct answer ✔A system regulated by a dominant leader, or
political/ economic domination of a region. It also means power and control
exercised by a leading state over other states.
Democratic peace thesis - correct answer ✔A central plank of liberal-
internationalists thought, makes two claims: 1) Liberal polities exhibit restraint
in their relations with other liberal polities
2) They are imprudent in relations with authoritarian states. The validity has
been fiercely debated in the international relations literature.
Bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔Owners or upper class
World-system theory - correct answer ✔Everything is linked. Either in core
system or in Periphery.
Social Constrction - correct answer ✔The idea that nothing is natural. The
values and norms that govern or shape a country's behaviors. How rules and
institutions come to be and shared systems.
Carrots - correct answer ✔Incentive based ideas to influence others Soft
power
State - correct answer ✔A legal territorial entity composed of a stable
population and a government; it possesses a monopoly over the legitimate
use of force; its sovereignty is recognized by other states in the international
system
Sovereignty - correct answer ✔The condition of a state having control and
authority over its own territory and being free from any higher legal authority. It
is related to, but distinct from, the condition of a government being free from
external political constraints
Realism - correct answer ✔Statism, Sovereignty of the state, survival, and
self help. The theoretical approach that analyzes all international relations as
the relation of the states engaged in pursuit of power. They see the
international system as anarchic or without a common power and they believe
conflict is endemic in the international system.
Constructivism - correct answer ✔An approach that concerns itself with the
centrality of ideas and human consciousness. They have examined world
politics and have been broadly interested in how the structure constructs the
actors' identities and interests, how their interactions are organized and
constrained by that structure, and how their very interaction serves to either
reproduce or transform that structure.
Peace of Westphalia - correct answer ✔1648 The treaties of Osnabruck and
Munster, which together ended the Thirty Years' War and were crucial in
deliminiting the political rights and authority of European Monarchs
Congress of Vienna - correct answer ✔A meeting of major European
Leaders (1814-1815) that redrew the political map of Europe after the end of
the Napoleonic Wars. The congress was an attempt to restore a conservative
political order in the continent.
Levels of Analysis - correct answer ✔Individual: leaders field experts
Domestic: Local and state specific field
Systematic: Factors involving multiple states
Global: challenge boundaries and sovereignty
, Hegemony - correct answer ✔A system regulated by a dominant leader, or
political/ economic domination of a region. It also means power and control
exercised by a leading state over other states.
Democratic peace thesis - correct answer ✔A central plank of liberal-
internationalists thought, makes two claims: 1) Liberal polities exhibit restraint
in their relations with other liberal polities
2) They are imprudent in relations with authoritarian states. The validity has
been fiercely debated in the international relations literature.
Bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔Owners or upper class
World-system theory - correct answer ✔Everything is linked. Either in core
system or in Periphery.
Social Constrction - correct answer ✔The idea that nothing is natural. The
values and norms that govern or shape a country's behaviors. How rules and
institutions come to be and shared systems.
Carrots - correct answer ✔Incentive based ideas to influence others Soft
power
State - correct answer ✔A legal territorial entity composed of a stable
population and a government; it possesses a monopoly over the legitimate
use of force; its sovereignty is recognized by other states in the international
system
Sovereignty - correct answer ✔The condition of a state having control and
authority over its own territory and being free from any higher legal authority. It
is related to, but distinct from, the condition of a government being free from
external political constraints
