G.I Chapter 1
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KatScott91 on August 23, 2011
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Vocabulary from chapters one and two from the Global Issues text.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 world imperial system | one government controls most of the world with witch it has contact. |
| feudal system | human loyalties and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundaries. |
| anarchic system of states | composed of states that are relatively cohesive but with no higher government above them. |
| international politics | politics in the absence of a common sovereign, politics among entities with no ruler above them. A self-help system. |
| realism | the dominant tradition in thinking about international politics for centuries. |
| liberalism | a political orientation that favors progress and reform |
| Marxism | the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded |
| dependency theory | predicted that the wealthy countries in the "center" of the global marketplace would control and hold back poorer countries on the "periphery". |
| anarchic organization | the absence of a higher government. |
| skeptics | moral categories have no meaning in international relations because no institutions exist to provide order. No sense of community and therefore no moral rights and duties. |
| just war doctrine | originated in the early Christian church and became secularized after the seventeenth century, prohibits the killing of innocent civilians. |
| state moralists | international politics rests on a society of states with certain rules, although those rules are not always perfectly obeyed. |
| cosmopolitans | international politics are not just a society of states, but as a society of individualists. Justice for individuals. |
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