IAFS Exam 1 Ch.1
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slandreth on October 2, 2011
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global issues and international affairs: iafs 1000
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 3 steps to international affairs | description, explanation, prescription |
| nation-state | a government that presides over a population within a set territory |
| state | central government |
| sovereignty | state's right to do what it wants in its own territory (including violence and separation of church and state) |
| non-state actor | work with countries, no one specific governmental association (IGO, MNC, NGO) |
| IGO (intergovernmental organization) | meeting place for sovereign actors in international system (World Bank, UN, IMF) |
| NGO (nongovernmental organization) | works with all actors to provide aid (IPI, Doctors without Border, GreenPeace) note: foreign aid often given directly to NGO rather than government to avoid corruption |
| MNC (multinational corporation) | a company based in multiple countries (McDonald's, Apple, Shell) note: argument that MNC's run world because have most influence over governments because have so much money |
| terrorist group | non-state actor that uses unauthorized violence to gain territory (and when successful infiltrate into new government of said territory) |
| dependent variable | event to be explained |
| independent variable | factor that does the explaining (at 4 levels of analysis: global, interstate, domestic, individual) |
| levels of analysis | global interstate/international domestic individual |
| increase in # of nation-state actors | long term trend in IA because of decolonization and state disintegration good: more political representation, more specific, more regulation and organization bad: complicate international system, too many different pieces |
| economic globalization | long term trend in IA freer flow of goods, capital, services, labor across national borders makes borders less relevant? |
| proliferation of IGO's | old:UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO new: European Union, NAFTA, Mercrosur, ASEAN, African Union, Gulf Cooperation Council |
| UN (United Nations) | 1945; 193 countries, to promote collective security |
| World Bank | 1944; international bank that loans to countries to develop economic capitalism |
| IMF (International Monetary Fund) | 1945; stabilize exchange rates, facilitate international payments, manage national accounts |
| WTO (World Trade Organization) | 1995; supervise and liberalize international trade |
| European Union | 1958; 27 states, common currency and foreign policy |
| NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) | 1994; trade union/bloc with US, Canada, and Mexico) |
| Mercosur | 1991; Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay; economic and political agreement: free trade, free flow of goods, people, currency |
| African Union | 2002; 54 African states (all but Morocco), union to promote all things including democracy |
| ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) | 1967; 10 nations, union to promote good things |
| Gulf Cooperation Council | 1981; political and economic union of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf and constituting the Persian Peninsula, 6 nations |
| international relations | concerns the relationships among the world's governments |
| collective goods problem | the problem of how to provide something that benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it; solved by 3 dominance, reciprocity, identity. (free riding, prisoner's dilemma, etc.) |
| dominance | solves collective goods problem by establishing a power hierarchy (not only force but ability to cooperate) |
| reciprocity | solves collective goods problem by rewarding behavior that contributes to the group and punishing behavior that pursues self-interest at the expense of the group |
| identity | a principle for solving collective goods problems by changing participants' preferences based on their shared sense of belonging to a community (international family) |
| issue areas | areas in international activity that create conflict and require cooperative resolution |
| conflict and cooperation | the types of actions that states take toward each other through time |
| international security | a subfield of IR that focuses on questions of war and peace |
| international political economy (IPE) | the subfield of IR that studies politics of trade and regulation of flow of international economic and financial transactions |
| international system | set of relationships among the world's states, structured according to certain rules and patterns of interaction |
| GDP (Gross Domestic Product) | total annual economic activity |
| globalization | the increasing integration and interconnectedness of the world in terms of communications, culture, and economics; may also refer to changing subjective experiences of space and time accompanying this process + liberal economy |
| North-South gap | separation of richer more advanced countries in west and the developing countries of Africa, Middle East, and much of Asian and Latin America note: most important geographical element of global level of analysis |
| League of Nations | 1934 (after WW1); forerunner to UN, weakened because US did not participate because did not effectively ensure collective security |
| Munich Agreement of 1938 | 1938; to let Germany occupy part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland), SO WHAT: appeasement has negative connotation in IR now because it seemed to have encouraged Hitler to WW2 |
| containment | late 1940's; US stop Soviet expansion militarily, politically, ideologically, economically |
| summit meeting | a meeting between heads of state (usually great powers) ex: US-USSR during Cold War |
| Sino-Soviet split | 1960's; when China opposed Soviet moves toward peaceful coexistence with US |
| Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 | 1962; Soviet Union installed medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba: moment when US and USSR came closest to nuclear war |
| proxy wars | wars in third world (often civil wars) that US and USSR funded opposing sides to jockey position |
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