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Analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis through three conceptual models according to three different levels of analysis..
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the rational actor model, which assumes that states pursue foreign policy based on the ideals of the national interest;
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– the organizational process model, where decisions are made based on the organizational structure of the decision-‐making process;
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– and, the governmental politics model, which argues that decisions are the product of bargaining between intergovernmental offices.
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“I want to say—and this is very important—at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. RaNonal individuals: Kennedy was raNonal; Khrushchev was raNonal; Castro was raNonal. RaNonal individuals came that close to total destrucNon of their socieNes. And that danger exists today.” |
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“Foreign policy analysis should have been at the core of a realist theory of InternaNonal RelaNons. But, rather than aXempNng to explain the origins of foreign policies, realists more ogen than not took them for granted. Consequently, Allison’s framework made the research agenda of InternaNonal RelaNons explode. It redefined the boundaries of the discipline, and thus threatened the overlap between realist assumpNons of world poliNcs and the idenNty of InternaNonal RelaNons.”
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3 Determinants of Structure
Kenneth Waltz |
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1. The Ordering Principle of the System
– i.e. whether the system is anarchic or hierarchic
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2. The Differentiation of the Units within the System
– What are the main actors? What are their functions?
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3. The Distribution of Capabilities Across the System
– i.e. the balance of power
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1648
Religious basis between protestants and catholics. Around that time in Europe, the continent was dividing in terms of overlapping sovereign rule: communities, princes, kings etc and on top of all that there was the church and the Vatican. Even if you were the king of England Henry you could not divorce your wife according to the church, thus the king separated from the church.
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Hans J Morgenthau
(Political Realism) |
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- Politics is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature
(human nature is fixed and unchanging, IR theorists should be able to deduce a theory that refelcts these objective laws) |
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"in the field of action, realism tends to emphasize the irresistible strength of existing forces and the inevitable character of existing tendencies, and to insist that the highest wisdom lies in accepting, and adapting oneself to these forces and these tendencies" |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in which year?
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