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The relationships among the world’s state governments and the connection of those relationships with other actors (UN), with other social relationships (economics), & with geographic and historical influences

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International relations

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A tangible or intangible good, created by the members of a group, that is available to all group members regardless of their individual contribution; participants can gain by lowering their own contribution, yet if too many do so, the good cannot be provided

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Collective goods problem

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A principle for solving collective goods problems by imposing solutions hierarchically

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Dominance

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A response in kind to another’s actions; uses positive forms of leverage to promise rewards and negative forms of leverage to threaten punishment

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Reciprocity

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A principle for solving collective goods problems by changing participants’ preferences based on their shared sense of belonging to a community

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Identity

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Distinct spheres of intl. activity (such as global trade negotiations) within which policy makers of various states face conflicts and sometimes achieve cooperation

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Issue areas

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The types of actions that states take toward each other through time

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Conflict and cooperation

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A subfield of intl. relations that focuses on questions of war and peace

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International security

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The study of the politics of trade, monetary, and other economic relations among nations, and their connection to other transnational forces

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International political economy

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An inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that exercises sovereignty over its territory

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State

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The set of relationships among the world’s states, structured by certain rules and patterns of interaction

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International system

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States whose populations share a sense of national identity, usually including a language and culture

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Nation-states

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The size of a state’s total annual economic activity

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GDP

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Actors other than state governments that operate either below the level of the state or across state’s borders

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Nonstate actors

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An organization (such as the UN) whose members are state governments

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Intergovernmental organizations (IGO)

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A transnational group (such as Catholic Church) that interacts with states, multinational corporations, and IGOs

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Nongovernmental organization (NGO)

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The increasing integration of the world in terms of communications, culture, and economics; may also refer to changing subjective experiences of space and time accompanying this process

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Globalization

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The disparity in resources (income, wealth, power) between the industrialized, relatively rich countries of the West and the poorer countries of Africa, Middle East, and much of Asia and Latin America

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North-South gap

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An organization established after WWI and a forerunner of today’s UN

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League of Nations

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A symbol of the failed policy of appeasement allowing Nazi Germany to occupy a part of Czechoslovakia. Rather than appease Germany, it was followed by further German expansions, triggered WWII

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Munich Agreement

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The hostile relations, punctuated by occasional periods of improvement or détente, between the two superpowers, the US and Soviet Union

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Cold War

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A policy adopted in the late 1940s by which the US sought to halt the global expansion of Soviet influence on several levels

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Containment

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A rift in the 1960s between the communist powers of the Soviet and China, fueled by China’s opposition to Soviet moves toward peaceful coexistence with the US

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Sino-Soviet split

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A superpower crisis, sparked by the Soviet’s installation of medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Wars in the third world in which the US and the Soviet jockeyed for position by supplying and advising opposing factions

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Proxy wars