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Exam II Political Sc
Vocab Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bounded Rational | Limited decisions, satisfactory |
| Autonomous regions | China, Russia, Iraq, - free from external authority |
| genocide | extermination of a racial, culture, political group |
| collective security | all states / nations agree to peace - no threats, amunition - aggressin should be defeated collectively |
| system | a group of units or parts united by some form of regular interaction, in which a change in one unit cause change in the other; these interactions occur in a regularized way |
| Mirrior images | the tendency of individuals and groups to see in ones’ oppomemt the opposite characteristics as those seen in one’s self |
| State | an organized political unit that hes geographical territiory, stable population, a government which the public owes allegiance and that is legally recognized by other states |
| Power | the ability to influence others also to control the outcomes so as to produce results that would not have occured naturally |
| Track-two diplomacy | unofficial overtures by private individuals or groups to try and resolve an ongoing international crisis or civil war |
| Sanctions | economic, diplomatic, and even coercive military force for enforcing an international policy or another states policy, can be positive or negative |
| Mutinational corporations | private entreprises with production facilities,salesor activites in several states |
| Soft power | ability to change a targets behavior based on the legitamacy of ones ideas or policies, rather than material power |
| Detterence | the policy of maintaining a large military force and arsenal to discourage any potential progressor from taking action;states commit themselves to punish an aggresor state |
| Satifice | in decision making thoery, the tendency of states and their leaders to settle for the minimally acceptable solution, not the best possible outcome, in order to reach a consensus and formulate a policy |
| Cognitive Consistency | The tendency of individuals to accept information that is compatible with what has previously been accepted, often by ignoring inconsistent information;linked to the desire of individuals to be consistent in their attitudes |
| Balance of powers | any system in which actors enjoy relatively equal power, such that no single coalition of states is able to dominate any other actors in the system |
| Ethnonational movements | the participation in organized political activity of self conscious communities sharing an ethnic affiliation, some movements seek autonomy within an organzed state, others desire separation and the formation of a new state, still others want to join with |
| Transnational movements | groups of people from different states who share religious,ideological,or policy beliefs and who work together to change the status quo |
| Bureaucratic politics | the model or foreign policy decision making that posits the national decisions are the outcomes of bargaining among bureaucratic groups having competing interest; |
| New international economic order | a list of demands by the group of 77 to reform economic relations between north and the south,that is, between developed countries and the developing countries |
| Diplomacy | the practice of states trying to influence the behavior of other states by bargaining,negotiating, taking a specific noncoercive actions of refraining from such actions, or appealing to the foreign public for support of a positionStratisfication |
| Stratisfication | the uneven distribution between of resources among different groups or individuals and statesNon governmental orginizations |
| Group think | the tendency for small groups to form a consensus and restrict criticism of a core position, often disregarding contradictory information in the process;group may ostracize members holding a different position |
| Evoked set | the tendency to look for details in a contemporary situation that are similar to information previously obtained |
| Globalization | the process of increasing intergration of the world in terms of economics, politics communications, social relations and culture; increasingly undermines traditional state sovereignty |
| Nation | a group of people sharing a commin language,history or cultureDemocratic pece theory |
| Democratic pece theory | theory supported by empirical evidence that democratic states do not fight wars against eachother but do fight wars against authoritarian states |
| Regime | rules,norms, procedures around which the expectations of actors converge on a specific issue |
| International society | the states and substate actors in the interntional system and the institutions and norms that regulate their interaction;implies that these actors communicate, sharring common interest and common identity;identified with british school of political theory |
| Nationalism | devotion and allegiance to the nation and the shared characteristics of its people; used to motivate people to patriotic acts,sometime leading a group to seek dominance over another group |
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