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Balance Of Power: The Process by which states counterbalance to ensure that no single state dominates the system, or an outcome that establishes a rough equilibrium among states.
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Constructivism: A perspective that emphasizes ideas, such as the content of language and social discourse over institutions or power.
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Critical Theory Perspective: Offer broad critiques of international relations and generally advocate radical solutions. All ideas, institutions and power, historically bound and contigent.
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Domestic Level of Analysis: Locates causes in the character of domestic states. Generally focuses on solitary or small group of states and what happened to them.
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Equilibrium: A distribution of political or economic power in which the different parts of the world interact on a more or less decentralized basis.
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Foreign Policy Level of Analysis: Where foreign policy officials actually make decisions. Operates between the system process and domestic levels of analysis.
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Identity Perspective: Interested in the ideas that guide cooperation and the use of power and the ideas that construct the identity of an actor.
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Individual Level Of Analysis: Locates the cause of events in individual leaders or their immediate circle of decision makers within a particular country
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Interdependence: The mutual dependence of states and nonstate actors in the international system through conferences, trade, tourism, and the like.
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Liberal Perspective: Interested in the problem of cooperation. Assumes that individuals and groups behave on the basis of how other groups behave toward them.
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Realist Perspective: Focuses on conflict and war, which is a consequence of anarchy.
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Reciprocity: States behaving towards one another based largely on mutual exchanges that entail interdependent benefits or disadvantages.
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Systemic Level Of Analysis: Explains outcomes from a system wide level that includes all states. Takes into account both the position of the state in the international system and their relationships.
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Systemic Process Level Of Analysis: The interaction of states. Concerned with alliances and negotiations.
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Systemic Structural Level Of Analysis: The position of state. Involves relative distribution of power and geopolitics.
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Unilateralism: Action by one or several states but not by all states.
