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| The interaction between sovereign states |
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| The laws and procedures that guide the interaction between sovereign nation states |
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| A government has the right, at least in principle, to do whatever it likes in its own territory |
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| A territory and group of people who identify and have a territory and derives their political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity. |
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| A theory that argues that the world societies are being disciplined to behave as if they were private markets operating in a global territory. (Less sovereign rules being obeyed) |
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| Exploitation by a stronger country of a weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and kidnapping enrich the stronger country |
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General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade:
Codifies the rules of conduct for its members. Members were expected to negotiate reciprocal and mutually advantageous arrangements. |
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| International Governmental Organizations: Any international body or agency set up by the state, controlled by its member states dealing with common interests. |
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| National foreign policy aimed at acquiring more power than the state actually has. |
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| the economic and political policies by which a greater power indirectly maintains or extends its influence over other areas or people. |
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| States seek to survive within an anarchical system. Although states may seek survival through power, balancing is not the aim. The most powerful state rules. |
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| Each state, just as each individual, is endowed with certain natural rights. These natural rights are not human constructs; they exist as a result of a mandate from God, logic, or reason. |
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| Unlike natural law, which exists without the affirmative consent of nations, positivism teaches that international law is the body of law to which states have consented to be bound. A states' consent may be either EXPRESS, as in the form of a treaty, or IMPLIED, as with acquiesence to customary law. Positivism developed during the Enlightenment as an alternative to the natural rights approach to international law that was dominant in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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| The belief that international affairs is a struggle for power among self-interested states. People don't like realism because it isn't very moral. Realists are pessimistic about human nature. People are greedy, selfish, and irrational. Nation-states merely reflect their people. Realists maintain that policy must be based on postitions of real strength, not on bravado or hopeful illusions. Reactions must be based on reality, not always morality. Based on selfishness and need for control. Pessimism towards human morality. There is no natural respect, human nature is inherently bad. |
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| Idealism (constructivism) |
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| An idealist would say that the international world is, and should be, governed by groups like the UN and IGO's. Things can be achieved with discourse and peaceful protests. Wuold say terrorists exist because they do not have a route for discourse. Globalization leads to more discourse and less extreme violence. Also like modern naturalists. |
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