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| a theory that focuses on the rise and fall of the leading global power as the central political process of the modern world system. |
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| a preponderant state capable of dominating the conduct of international political and economic relations. |
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| hegemonic stablility theory |
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| a body of theory that maintains that the establishment of hegemony for global dominance by a single great power is a necessary condition for global order in commercial transactions and international military security. |
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| the neorealist proposition that states' behavior is shaped primarily by changes in the properties of the global system such as shifts in the balance of power, instead of by individual heads of states or by changes in states' internal characteristics. |
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| a mind-set glorifying a particular state and the nationality group living in it, which sees the state's interest as a supreme value. |
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| a strategy of making concessions to another state in the hope that, satisfied, it will not make additional claims. |
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| the rule of a region by an external sovereign power. |
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| a policy of withdrawing from active participation with other actors in world affairs and instead concentrating state efforts on managing internal affairs. |
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| the distribution of global power into three or more great power centers, with most other states allied with one of the rivals. |
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| a field of study that focuses on the intersection of politics and economics in international relations. |
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| a movement by an ethnic national group to recover control of lost territory by force so that the new state boundaries will no longer divide the group. |
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| a far-right ideology that promotes extreme nationalism and the establishment of an authoritarian society built around a single party with dictatorial leadership. |
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| a set of core philosophical principles that leaders and citizens collectively construct about politics, the interests of political actors, and the ways people ought to behave. |
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| the German realist philosophy in statecraft that sees the expansion of state power and territory by use of armed force as a legitimate goal. |
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| the 1945 summit meeting of the Allied victors to resolve postwar territorial issues and voting procedures in the United Nations to collectively manage world order. |
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| a condition in which power is concentrated in two competing centers so that the rest of the states define their allegiances in terms of their relationships with both rivals great power superstates, or "poles". |
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| the forty-two-year (1949-1991) rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their competing coalitions, which sought to contain each other's expansion and win worldwide predominance. |
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| the forty-two-year (1949-1991) rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their competing coalitions, which sought to contain each other's expansion and win worldwide predominance. |
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| a narrowing of the ratio of military capabilities between great power rivals that is thought to increase the probability of war between them. |
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| a region of the globe dominated by agreat power. |
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| a metaphor popular during the Cold War that predicted that if one state fell to communism, its neighbors would also fall in a chain reaction, like a row of falling dominoes. |
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| the declaration by President Harry S. Truman that U.S. foreign policy would use intervention to support peoples who allied with the United States against communist external subjugation. |
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| a strategy to prevent a great power rival from using force to alter the balance of power and increase its sphere of influence. |
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| Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev's 1956 doctrine that war between capitalist and communist states is not inevitable and that inter-bloc competition could be peaceful. |
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| in general, a strategy of seeking to relax tensions between adversaries to reduce the possibility of war. |
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) |
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| two sets of agreements reached during the 1970s between the United States and the Soviet Union that established limits on strategic nuclear delivery systems. |
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| a set of assertions claiming that leaders should take into account another country's overall behavior when deciding whether to reach agreement on any one specific issue so as to link cooperation to rewards. |
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| in diplomacy, a policy seeking to reestablish normal cordial relations between enemies. |
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| the capacity to co-opt through such intangible factors as the popularity of a state's values and institutions, as opposed to the "hard power" to coerce through military might. |
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| an approach that relies on self-help, independent strategies in foreign policy. |
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| a great power grand strategy using economic and military power to influence only important particular situations, countries, or global issues by striking a balance between a highly interventionist "global policeman" and an uninvolved isolationist. |
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| the historic tendency for hegemons to sap their own strength through costly imperial pursuits and military spending that weaken their economies in relation to the economies of their rivals. |
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| a global system where there is a single dominant power, but the settlement of key international issues always requires action by the dominant power in combination with that of other great powers. |
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| a cooperative agreement in design and plan among great powers to manage jointly the global system. |
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| cooperative approaches to managing shared problems through collective and coordinated action. |
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