Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is an Actor?
An individual, group or state, or organization that plays a major role in world politics.
What is Anarchy?
a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
The general Psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one’s preexisting beliefs(cognition’s) and new information.
What are Cycles?
The periodic reemergence of conditions similar to those that existed previously.
What are Enduring Rivalries?
Prolonged competition fueled by deep-seated mutual hatred that leads opposed actors to feud and fight over a long period of time without resolution of their conflict.
What are Ethnic Groups?
People whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship (Native Americans in the U.S)
What is Global Level of Analysis?
An analytical approach that emphasizes the impact of worldwide conditions on foreign policy behavior and human welfare.
What is Global System?
The predominant patterns of behaviors and beliefs that prevail internationally to define the major worldwide conditions that heavily influence human and national activities.
What are Great Powers?
The most powerful countries, Militarily and economically, in the global system.
What is Individual Level of Analysis?
an analytical approach that emphasizes the psychological and perpetual variables motivating people, such as those who make foreign policy decisions on behalf of states and other global actors.
What are Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)?
Institutions created and joined by states’ governments, which give them authority to make collective decisions to manage particular problems on the global agenda. (UN or NATO)
What are the Levels of Analysis?
three widely accepted levels of generalization (or abstraction) to help understand highly complex problems in world politics. They are: the individual, state (or, society) and the international system.
What are Mirror Images?
The tendency of states and people in competitive interaction to perceive each other similarly- to see others the same hostile ways other see them.
What is a Nation?
A collectivity whose people see them-selves as members of the same group because they share the same ethnicity, culture, or language.
What are Nongovernmental Organizations? (NGO)
Transitional organizations of private citizens maintaining consultative status with the UN: Includes professional associations, multinational corporations, or simply internationally active groups in different states joined together to work toward common interests. (World Wildlife foundation)
