Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
ISS
International Security Study
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Security | safety or protection of an entity. “study of threat, use and control of military force |
| Insecurity | Conditions of a nation which is inadequately defended against dangers or aggression threatening its independence or territory from the outside |
| Geopolitics | The science of states as life forms, based on demographics, economic, political, social and geographical factors |
| Globalisation | global interconnectedness (political, economic, military and culture) and the changing character of political authority |
| Elements of national power | Diplomatic, Information, Military, Economic, Finance, Intelligence, Law enforcement |
| Security studies | The study of the threat, use, and control of military force |
| Strategic studies | Study of conflict and peace strategies devoting attention to military history, Int. Pol., DIME |
| Theory/ theories | Set of ideas that attempts to explain how a system works |
| Realism | Realism, states exist within anarchic international system ultimately dependent own capabilities, or power, to further national interests. national interest is the survival of the state, including its people, political system, and territorial integrity |
| Classical Realism | The individual actor affects greater control than the state (structure) in international politics, people cause conflict |
| Neorealism/Structural Realism | States conflict and competition are enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation. The anarchy of the international system leads states unable to trust each other and require them to participate in power politics. Power is factor |
| Defensive Realism | States security concerns can be satisfied (possibly temporary) through relative gains |
| Offensive Realism | States are forced to maximize power to achieve protection against rival |
| Liberalism | Rejects power politics/military action as the only outcome for IR. Instead promoting the mutual benefits of states to have international cooperation. The actors being international organizations and NGOs as well as the states |
| Neoliberalism | political and economic policy model that emphasizes the value of free market capitalism while seeking to transfer control of economic factors from the government to the private sector |
| Liberal Institutionalism | international (institution) cooperation between states is feasible and sustainable, and that such cooperation can reduce conflict and competition |
| Realpolitik | amoral, self-serving politics practiced by states |
| Statecraft | All the actions that contribute to governing a nation and conducting diplomatic affairs |
| Foreign policy | General objectives that guide the activities and relationships of one state in its interactions with other states |
| National security | Ability for a country's government to protect its citizens, economy, and other institutions |
| War | Armed conflict within, between, and among states |
| Warfare | The means of conducting conflict within, between, and among states |
| Anarchy | Absence of any form of political authority or government |
| Compellence | Form of coercion that attempts to get an actor to change it behavior through threats to use force or limited use of force |
| Deterrence | The practice of discouraging or restraining someone/state in world politics from taking unwanted actions, such as armed attack |
| Conventional warfare | The use of direct military capabilities to defeat an adversary's armed forces on the battlefield |
| Irregular warfare | Activities short of conventional and nuclear warfare that are designed to expand a country’s influence and legitimacy |
| Hybrid Warfare | Includes all activities even up to armed conflict that are designed to expand a country’s influence and legitimacy |
| New Wars | Conflict fought by state and non-state actors with most violence being directed at civilians. Fight is over identity politics |
| Old Wars | Armed conflict of the 19th/20th century that was propagated by states with a geo-political or ideological goal and normally resulted in taking territory |
| Failed State | the governance of the state has fully collapsed or broken down |
| Weak/Fragile State | facing great difficulties but still broadly functioning |
| Defense | Deployment of mil force to ward off attack or minimize damage if attacked. |
| Deterrence | Deployment of mil power to prevent adversary from doing something that one does not want him to do and that he might otherwise be tempted to do by threatening with unacceptable punishment |
| Compellence | Deployment of mil power to stop adversary from doing something that he has undertaken or to do something that he has not yet undertaken |
| Swaggering | Deployment of mil power for reasons other than the other three. Involves peaceful use of force by displaying one’s military might or buying/building the most prestigious weapons |
| Ameliorate | 1. No use of military force in combat 2. Delivers aid 3. Build camps 4. Trains armies or observe 5. Force used only in self defense 6. Similar to deterrence/swagger of Art’s 4 |
| Contain | 1. Mil force to prevent something from spreading, 2. defend a breach of a barrier, 3. Choosing rules of engagement to control use of force – 4. Defense or deterrence of Art’s 4 |
| Deter or Coerce | 1. Mil deployed to pose a threat, 2. mil prepared to take active measures, 3. coercion by force – 4. Deterrence or Compellence of Art’s 4 |
| Destroy | 1. Mil force attacks opposition in order to destroy it 2. Compellence of Art’s 4 |
Created by:
Akarawut
Popular Military sets