International Relations

Notes of the required readings (Textbook chapters, journal articles and so on) for the course International Relations (2nd year, 2nd semester International Studies)

Complete summary of lectures + some notes from my seminar. I use color coordination method to clearly divide the summary and to make it more fun to learn and read.

This is a group work term paper regarding Brazil's international political economy.

Liberalism is good at explaining - ANSWER-international environmental cooperation Which of the following is a military dictatorship? - ANSWER-North Korea Historical approaches to international relations stressed - ANSWER-description of unique events A policy of joining with the weaker side in an international dispute is known as: - ANSWER-balancing An example of a functional intergovernmental organization (IGO) is the: - ANSWER-World Health Organization (WHO) Which of the followin...

Fathers of International Law - ANSWER-Hugo Grotius and Emerich Vattek International Law - ANSWER-Face common coordination and collaboration problems. Cannot have United Nations without international law. Designed to facilitate international order Customary International Law - ANSWER-accepted practice carried out by states based on belief that act is a legal obligation Treaties - ANSWER-Duly negotiated and ratified by states. Treaty Laws - ANSWER-Unga-Inited Nations General Assembly. ...

What is international Relations? - ANSWER-Collective Interaction of actors in the international community. List the two kinds of interactions. - ANSWER-Positive Interactions- cooperation over aviation security. Negative Interactions- 9/11 terrorist attacks What is the principle of collective action? - ANSWER-Cooperation by at least two actors to achieve a common goal What are the four levels of analysis in IR? - ANSWER--Global -Interstate/Systemic -State -Individual What is the ...

Liberals believe that military force as a form of leverage is not as important as realists do - ANSWER-True Neoliberals agree with realists that states are unitary actors - ANSWER-True International regimes exist in international security but not in international political economy - ANSWER-False The success of collective security depends on members agreeing on what constitutes aggression - ANSWER-True Difference feminists argue that realism involves assumptions of masculinity because...

What is the need to develop categories of explanations? - ANSWER--Categorization (drawing lines, common reference points)-how we make sense of a lot of information. -Causality (cause/effect; to think about why things happen in the world) -Policy relevance -Interpreting history What is individual-level analysis (also called first level of analysis or first image)? - ANSWER-Begins with the view that at the root it is people who make policy. Focuses on the human decision-making process and th...

key authors in IR theory and foreign policy - ANSWER-hook, Snyder, walt, and rose main unit of realism - ANSWER-states main focus in realism - ANSWER-power and security (power is needed for survival and exerting influence) what is anarchy? - ANSWER-the absence of a global governance system what is the security dilemma? - ANSWER-any increase in power comes at the expense of another, so states will continue to increase their own power to feel more secure intellectual foundations of...

Anarchical international system - ANSWER-The traditional structure of world politics in which there is no is no central authority to set and enforce rules and resolve disputes. There are rules but they are informal and that is why international law, intergovernmental organizations and the international system are described as a 'self-help system" Participation is voluntary not compulsory. Classic liberalism - ANSWER-A subdivision of liberal thought that is optimistic about human nature and ...

international relations - ANSWER-concerns the relationship among the world's governments collective goods problem - ANSWER-the problem of how to provide something that benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it dominance - ANSWER-establishes a hierarchy in which those at the top control those below-a bit like government without an actual government reciprocity - ANSWER-solves the collective goods problem by rewarding behavior that contributes the t...

Theory - ANSWER-a proposed explanation of an event or behavior of an actor in the real world. Definitions range from "an unproven assumption" to "a working hypothesis that proposed an explanation for an action or behavior." In international relations we have intuitive theories, empirical theories, and normative theories. Sovereignty - 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 di...