Terms Chapter 1 Flashcards
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Actor
an individual, group, state, or organization that plays a major role in world politics
Power
the factors that enable one actor to change another’s actor’s behavior’s against its preferences
State Soverignty
a state’s supreme authority to manage internal affairs and foreign relations
State
an independent legal entity with a government exercising exclusive control
Nation
A collectivity whose people see themselves as members of the same group because they share the same ethnicity, culture, or language
Ethnic Groups
people whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship
Inter-governmental Organization (IGOs)
Institutions created and joined by states’ governments, which give them the authority to make collective decisions to manage particular problems on the global agenda
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Transnational organizations of private citizens maintaining consultative status with the UN; they include professional associations, foundations, multinational corporations, or simply internationally active groups in different states joined together to work toward a common interest
Levels of Analysis
The different aspects of and agenda in international affairs that may be stressed in interpreting and explaining global phenomena, depending on whether the analyst chooses to focus on the “wholes” (the complete global system and large collectivities) or on “parts” (individual states or people)
Individual Level of Analysis
An analytical approach that emphasizes the psychological and perceptual variables motivating people, such as those who make foreign policy decisions on behalf of states and other global actors.
State level of Analysis
An analytical approach that emphasize how the internal attributes of states influence their foreign policy behavior’s.
Systemic Level of Analysis
An analytical approach that emphasizes the impact of worldwide conditions on foreign policy behaviour and human welfare.
Transformation
A change in the characteristic pattern of interaction among the most active patients in world politics of such magnitude that it appears that one “global system” has replaced another.
Global System
The Predominant patterns of behavior’s and beliefs that prevail internationally to define the major worldwide conditions that heavily influence human and national activities.
Great Powers
The most powerful countries, military and economically, in the global system
Anarchy
A condition in which the units in the global system are subjected to few, if any, overarching institutions to regulate their conduct.
Cycles
The periodic reemergence of conditions similar to those existed previously
Cognitive Dissonance
the general psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one’s preexisting beliefs (cognitions) and new information.
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
mirror images
the tendency of states and people in competitive interaction to perceive each other similarly - to see others the same hostile way others see them
schematic reasoning
the process of reasoning by which new information is interpreted according to a memory structure, called a schema, which contains a network of generic scripts, metaphors, and simplified characterizations of observed objects and phenomena.
world politics
the study of how global actors’ activities entail the exercise of influence to achieve and defend their goals and ideals and how it affects the world at large
