international relations
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 balance of threat | what drives state behavior is the assessment of the threat others pose to ntl interests |
| transnational advocacy networks | groups that exchange and promote common values |
| state | political unit that can govern territory |
| nation | group of people who see themselves as a culture |
| nation-state | state that exists to govern its people |
| nationalism | idea that people care about their ntl identity |
| peace of Westphalia | marked end of 30 yrs war, and birthed modern international system |
| concert model | balance of power model that relies on collective oversight and balance by great powers |
| concert of europe | meetings of the great powers to produce stability and order |
| Pax Britannica | British peace |
| two-level game | leaders are always negotiating with other states |
| collective security | approach that aims to repel aggression against any other state, think NATO |
| League of Nations | created in 1919 to promote international peace |
| appeasement | practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war |
| Cold War | crisis and tensions between US and USSR from 1945-1989, fall of Berlin War. |
| Proxy War | third party war, |
| mujahedeen | in Afghanistan, holy warriors who banded together to fight the Soviet-supported government in the late 1970s |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | discovery of soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba in 1960s |
| dètente | relaxation between US and Russia in 1970s |
| SALT | strategic arms limitations talks, to reduce nuclear weapon expansion |
| Vietnam syndrome | Congress and US people didn't want to intervene in other nation's warfares |
| linkage | Kissinger's linking soviet access to US trade as a GOOD thing |
| bipolarity | where only two major powers are capable of threatening one another. |
| realpolitik | politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations |
| Perestroika | economic restructuring |
| glasnost | policy of OPENNESS from Gorbachev in 1980s |
| unipolarity | a great power becomes way better than the others |
| multipolarity | 3 or more powers threaten each other |
| soft power | ability to shape the preferences and ideas of others with attraction, rather than coercion. |
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