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POSC 172
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| behavioralism | an approach to the study of social science and international relations that states act in regularized ways (norms and patterns); leads to a belief that behaviors can ve descrived explained, and predicted. |
| globalization | the integration of international customs into a state; increasingly undermines traditional state sovereignty |
| international relations | the study of interactions among various actors that participate in international policies |
| normative | relating to ethical rules; in foreign policy and international affairs, standards suggesting what a policy should be |
| balance of power | any system in which actors enjoy relatively equal power, such that no single state or coalition of states is able to dominate other actors in the system |
| caliphate | an area under the leadership of an Islamic steward (leader of entire Muslim community) |
| capitalism | the economic system in which the ownership of the means of production is in private hands; the system operates according to market forces whereby capital labor move freely |
| Cold War | the era in international relations (1945-1990s) with bipolar powers and rivalry between Soviet Union v.s. U.S. |
| colonialism | the practice of founding, maintaining, and expanding a state's reach to territory abroad, motivated by expectation of economic gain, political agreement, or cultural supremacy |
| containment | a foreign policy designed to prevent the expansion of adversary by blocking it opportunities to expand through foreign aid programs or through use of coercive force; the major U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War. |
| détente | the easing of tense relations |
| domino effect | a metaphor that posits that the loss of influence one state to an adversary will necessarily lead to a subsequent loss of control over neighboring states, just as dominos fall one after another |
| hegemon | a dominant state that has a preponderance of power; often establishes and enforces the rules and norms in the international system |
| imperialism | the policy and practice of extending the domination of one state over another through territorial conquest or economic domination |
| League of Nations | the international organization formed at the conlcusion of WWI for the purpose of preventing another; based on collective security |
| legitimacy | the moral and legal right to rule, which is based on law, custom heredity, or consent of the governed |
| nationalism | a sense of national consciousness where people identify with a common history, language, or customs, often placing primary emphasis on one's own nation's culture and interest sover those of other nations |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | military and political alliance between Western European states and the U.S. established for the purpose of defending Europe from agression by the Soviet Union and its allies; post-Cold War expansion to Eastern Europe |
| populism | belief that champions the common person, contrasting people's concerns with those of the elite; often opposing big business and financial interests |
| rollback | a strategy of using, or threatening the use of, armed force to agressively coerce an adversary into abandoning occupied territory |
| socialism | an economic and social system that relies on intensive government intervention(public ownership) in order to distribute wealth among the population more equitably; in radical Marxist theory, the stage between capitalism and communism |
| sovereignty | dominant power or supreme authority |
| summits | talks and meetings amon the highest-level government officials from different countries |
| superpowers | highest-power states as distinguished from other great powers |
| Third Reich | the German state from 1933-45; a time which coincides with the rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party |
| Treaties of Westphalia | treaties ending the Thirty Years War in Europe in 1648; in international relations represents the beginning of state sovereingty within a territorial space |
| war on terror | declaring to use a given society's materail and nonmaterial resources to defeat those using terror, often nonstate actors targeting noncombatants to instill fear in the population |
| Warsaw Pact | the military alliance formed by the states of the Soviet bloc in 1955 in response to the rearmament of West Germany and its unclusion in NATO; permitted the stationing of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe |
| weapons of mass destruction (WMD) | nuclear, chemical, biological, weapons |
| anarchy | the fact that there exists no hierarchically superior, coercive authority that can create laws, resolve disputes, or enforce law and order in the system. |
| Marxism | |
| balancing | |
| bandwagoning | |
| collective security | |
| complex interdependence | |
| constructivism | |
| dependency theory | |
| discourse | |
| external balancing | |
| hypotheses | |
| identity | |
| internal balancing | |
| international institutions | |
| liberalism | |
| multinational corporations (MNCs) | |
| national interst | |
| neoliberal interest | |
| neoliberal institutionalism | |
| neorealism | |
| norms | |
| radicalism | |
| rational actors | |
| realism | |
| relative gains | |
| security dilemma | |
| socialization | |
| theoretical perspectives | |
| theory | |
| belief system | |
| bipolar | |
| cognitive consistency | |
| evoked set | |
| groupthink | |
| hegemon | |
| levels of analysis | |
| mirror image | |
| multilateralism | |
| multipolar | |
| nation | |
| nation-state | |
| state | |
| system | |
| unipolar | |
| bureaucratic politics model | |
| compellence | |
| credibility | |
| deterrence | |
| diplomacy | |
| engagement | |
| ethnonational movements | |
| extremist Islamic fundamentalism | |
| fragile states | |
| hard power | |
| organizational process model | |
| pluralist model | |
| power | |
| power potential | |
| public diplomacy | |
| sanctions | |
| satisficing | |
| smart power | |
| smart sanctions | |
| soft power | |
| state | |
| statecraft | |
| Track One diplomacy | |
| Track Two diplomacy | |
| transnational movements | |
| arms control | |
| asymmetric conflict | |
| commercial peace theory | |
| conventional wars | |
| cyberspace | |
| cyberwarfare | |
| democratic peace theory | |
| disarmament | |
| guerilla warfare | |
| interstate wars | |
| intrastate wars | |
| instrastate wars with foreign involvement | |
| jus ad bellum | judges whether or not to go to war |
| jus in bello | judges what is legal or illegal in wars |
| just war tradition | warfare that is justified by a moral or legal tradition |
| national security | the ability for a state to protect its interests, secrets and citizens from threat (both external and internal). |
| noncombatant immunity | civilians or surrendered peoples in a conflict may not be targeted or harmed |
| nonviolent resistance | the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests |
| nuclear proliferation | the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
| terrorism | political in purpose, nonstate actors, noncombatant(civilian) targets. Made up of civilians |
| unconventional wars | wars distinguished by willingness to flout restrictions on legitimate targets of violence or refuse to accept the traditonal outcomes of battles as an indicator of victory or defeat |
| war | 1,000 or more deaths in a 12-month period AND two or MORE state actors |
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