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Int. sudies #1
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Politics - Weber | Striving to share power or influence the distribution among states or groups within the state. |
| Politics - Lasswell | Distribution, who gets what, when, & how |
| Politics - Spiegel | The ability of one actor to get another to do what the other otherwise would not have done |
| State (according to Weber) | A human community that successfully claims the monopoly of legitimate use of force in a given territory. |
| Power | A getting B to do what A wants. |
| Nation | Imagined communities, self conscious, composed of people who share ethnicity, language, or culture but may not possess a state. |
| Anarchy | No final authority that can make binding decisions. |
| Hegemon | Dominant power that sets rules in a system and provides goods to public such as order and security within the system. |
| Preventative War | Trying to prevent something from happening using relative power. |
| Zero-sum gain | Any gain of one actor is at the loss of another. |
| State of General Anarchy | “Each individual, every family, or social group had to look to their own security.” |
| Reason of state | Calculation of the head of power and expedient behavior. |
| Antihegemonialism | desire to prevent one power form being dominant. |
| Sovereignty | The notion the state in person of monarch is supreme within its territory, independent of higher authority, and the legal equal of other states (Bodin) |
| Great Power | One that is economically and militarily more strong and powerful in relation to others. |
| Power Projection Capability | The ability of a state to exert influence on other states. |
| Multipolar system | Three or more great powers, no dominant states |
| Revanchism | “Desire to avenge defeat and lost territory.” |
| Immediate Cause | An event localized in time whose occurrence at a certain time brings about the effect of that time. (ignites underlying causes.) |
| Underlying Cause | A standing condition in which is present over a long period of time prior to the occurrence of the explinandum (what you’re trying to explain.) |
| Barbarious War (Total war) | The whole of each states human and material resources are devoted to the conflict and belief that states survival is threatened by defeat. |
| Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
| Appeasement | Trying to buy off an aggressor |
| Bandwagonning | Refers to the act of weaker states joining a stronger power or coalition within balance of power politics. |
| Buck passing | a strategy in power politics when the actions of one country/nation are blamed on another, providing an opportunity for war. |
| Liberalization | The reduction of government involvement, interference, or oversight; in economic terms, the reduction of government rules and regulations with regards to the private sector. |
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