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International Politics
Poli Sci 103
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
09/26/2011

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International Politics
Definition
exercise and influence by competing states/groups to effect the aollocations and distribution of resources
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What are the nature and sources of images?

 

Definition
Schematic reasoning, Attribution Bias and Cognitive Dissonance
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What is Schematic reasoning?
Definition

new information is compared to generic thoughts stored in memory about certain steryotipcal information

(ex. believing all lawyers are liars)

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What is Attribution Bias?

 

Definition
emphasizing factors when explaining your own believes while stressing dispositional factors when explaining the same but for others (ie. double standards)
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Cognitive Dissonance
Definition
physcological tendency to deny or rationalize discrepances between what you think and new information (ie. ignoring facts that are right infront of you)
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What are the levelf of analysis?

 

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Individual, State and System
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Individual level of analysis
Definition
emphasizes the phsycological factors that motiviate people who make foreign policy decisions on behalf of states or other global actors
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State level of analysis
Definition
emphasizes the internal attributes of states influcing foreign policy behaviour
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Systematic level of analysis
Definition

emphasizes the impact of international structures and processes on the behaviour of global actors

(ie. how they compete with others on gobal stage)

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Remote Causes(Structural)
Definition

-deep, underlying factors that set off a train of events

 

-phenomena that are removed in time from the effects that they produce or help produce

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Proximate Cause (Immediate)
Definition

- those with more immediate effects

 

-phenomina occuring close in time to the effects that they produce or help to produce

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Sovereignty
Definition
believing there is no high power then the state
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Theory
Definition
iterrltating propsitions that explain an observation
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Political Realism
Definition

prioritizes national interests and security over ideology, moral concerns and social reconstrctions (ie. Most important actor on world stage and answers to no other)

 

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Balance of Power
Definition
Theory that, in an anarcaic world, national survival is most likely when military power is distrubuted
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What are componants of state power?

(4)

Definition
Location, Econmics, Type of Government and Leadership capablities
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Foreign Policy
Definition
-governements course of action to achieve certain goals or national interests
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Nation
Definition
a collection of people who, on the same ethnic/cultural affinity, pericives themselves to be members of the same group
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State
Definition
a legal entity that possess a permant population, well difined terrioty and a governmental capablities.
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Global South
Definition

Refers to states with low or medium human development 

(ie. India and China)

Usually rezide in South and Central American, Asia and Africa (South America)

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Global North
Definition

States with high human development

(ie. North America)

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What is Asian Tiger?  Who is apart of it?
Definition

Term used to describe the highly developed economies 

Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan

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ODA
Definition

Offical Development Assistance

 

Money flowing directly from one country to another

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What are the common goals on foreign aid?
Definition
Protect environment, premote female power, reduce military spending and premotiving democracy 
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Conditionality in Foreign Aid
Definition
Conditions where aid is transferred from one state to another
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FDI
Definition

Foreign Direct Investment

 

investment by multi national state into the Global South

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Non-State Actors
Definition
transnationally active groups who members are indivudals and private groups for more then one state (ex. IGO'S and NGO's)
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Realism
Definition

-believes no higher power then the state

-thinks world politics is a ceasless struggle for power

-"self help" system

-try and increase military power 

 

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Liberlism
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