International Relations

General Assembly - ANSWER-main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN Security council - ANSWER-maintains peace and address risks to global security Peace keepers - ANSWER-international enforcement and supervision of a truce between hostile states and communities Millennium goals - ANSWER-the worlds time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty Declaration of Human Rights - ANSWER-an international document that states basic rights and fundam...

anarchic international system - ANSWER-independent states with no central authority above them appeasement - ANSWER-a diplomatic policy of making political concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict balance of power - ANSWER-this theory suggests that national security is enhanced when there isn't one state whose military capability can dominate all the other states bipolar - ANSWER-a world order in which the vast majority of power is held between two states Cold War - ...

Hegemonic war - ANSWER-war over control of world order - the rules of the international system as a whole, role of world hegemony. aka "World War" Total War - ANSWER-Warfare waged by one state to conquer and occupy another. Limited War - ANSWER-military actions carried out to gain some objective short of the surrender and occupation of the enemy. Civil War - ANSWER-refers to war between factions within a state trying to create, or prevent, a new govt for the entire state or a territor...

Nation State - ANSWER-A country who's population shares a common identity. International Relations - ANSWER-the study of relations between countries Realism - ANSWER-How the world really is, and not how it ought to be. Security Dilemma - ANSWER-Actions taken to increase your own security causes a reaction from other states. Zero Sum Game - ANSWER-For one person to win, one person must lose Positive Sum Game - ANSWER-Total gains and losses is greater than zero. Usually, everyone'...

What are all the levels of analysis? - ANSWER-Describe Explain Predict ~Normative Sub- State (Sub-Unit) Level - ANSWER-Examples: Branches of government; Bureaucratic bodies; Corporations; Interest groups; Etc. Trans State Level - ANSWER-Sub-units or sub-state units that operate outside of their state's borders. What are the three traditional levels of analysis (a.k.a, "images")? - ANSWER-1~Individual 2~ State ("Units") Level- National State 3~ System Level -Internat...

Anarchy - ANSWER-The absence of government authority Behaviorism - ANSWER-An approach to the study of social science and international relations that posits that individuals and units like states act in regularized ways; leads to a belief that behaviors can be described, explained, and predicted international relations - ANSWER-The study of the interactions among various actors (states, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and subnational entities like bureaucracies,...

Treaties of Westphalia - ANSWER-Treaties ending the Thirty Years War in Europe in 1648; mandated sovereign, independent states, territorial integrity, and led to permanent national militaries. legitimacy - ANSWER-A power is recognized and accepted by society as legally and morally correct. Citizens believe in the governments right to rule nationalism - ANSWER-A belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people with whom they share land, culture, and history nation - ANSWER-...

What must a state have? - ANSWER-Territory, People ,In and External Sovereignty What is identified as the beginning of the modern state system? - ANSWER-The legal basis for modern statehood was established by the Peace Treaties of Westphalia and Osnabruck (1648). The states agreed to recognize each other's right to rule their own territories What are the characteristics of the modern state system? - ANSWER-• mutual recognition • non-intervention • diplomacy • consensual interna...

realism - ANSWER-a pragmatic approach to foreign policy, emphasizing national self-interest and based on the premise that power is the central factor in IR realpolitik - ANSWER-emphasizes the conflictual nature of global politics, the priority of national security, a pessimistic assessment of human nature idealism - ANSWER-an approach to IR based on the belief that moral principles and international cooperation should be guiding factors rather than considerations based purely on power and ...

Security - ANSWER-Power politics, conflict, and war Freedom - ANSWER-Cooperation, peace, and progress Order and justice - ANSWER-shared interests, rules, and institutions Welfare - ANSWER-wealth, poverty, and equality International Relations - ANSWER-is the study of conflict and cooperation by international actors, as furthered by the development and testing of hypotheses about international outcomes. Traditional View - ANSWER-States the value institutions: they provide security, ...