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A paradigm predicated on the hope that the appication of reason and universal ethics to international relations can lead to a more orderly, just, and cooperative world; liberalism assumes that anarchy and war can be policed by institutional reforms that empower international organization and and law. |
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Communication and negotiation between global actors that is not dependent upon the use of force and seeks a cooperative solution |
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An exchange in a purely confictual relationship in which what is gained by one competitor is lost by the other |
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A security regime agreed to by the great powers that sets rules for keeping peace, guided by the principle that an act of aggression by any state will be met by a collective response from the rest. |
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Interactions across state boundaries that involve at least one actor that is not the agent of a government or intergovernmental organization. |
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A model of world politics based on the assumptions that states are not the only important actors, security is not the dominant national goal, and military force is not the only significant instrument of foreign policy; this theory stresses crosscutting ways in which the growing ties among transnational actors make them vulnerable to each other's actions and sensitive to each other's needs. |
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Embodies the norms, principles, rules, and instituations around which global expectations unite regarding a specifiv international problem. |
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The "new" liberal theoretical perspective that accounts for hte way internationl institutions promote global change, cooperation, peace, and prosperity through collective programs for reforms. |
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| Responsibility to Protect |
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Unanimously adopted in a resolution by the UN General Assembly in 2005, this principle holds that the international community must help protect populations from war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocid, and crimes against humanity. |
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An approach to evaluating moral choices on the basis of the results of the action taken. |
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| A paradigm based on the premise that world politcs is a function of the ways that states construct and then accept images of reality and later respond to the meanings given to power politics; as consensual definitions change, it is possible for either conflictual or cooperative practices to evole. |
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A variant of constructivism that emphasizes that role of social discourse in the development of ideas and identities. |
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| A varieant of constructivism that emphasizes that role of social discourse in the development of ideas and identites. |
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| Agent-oriented Constructivism |
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| A variant of constructivism that sees ideas and identities as influenced in part by independent. |
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| Generalized standards of behavior that, once accepted, shape collevtive expectations about appropriate conduct. |
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| A category of feminist theory that sees men and eoman as equal in skills and capabilities, and promotes the equal participation of woman under exisiting political, legal, and social institutions and practices. |
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A category of feminism that sees woman as experiencing a very different reality from that of men, and consquently holding a different perspective on international affairs.
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A category of feminist theory that focuses on the implications of gendered language for world politics.
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| A category of geminist thoery that looks at differences in the experiences of woman, and augues there is no universal feminine perspective or approach. |
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| The policy of expanding state power through the conquest and/or military domination of foreign territory. |
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| A theory hypothesizing that less developed countires are exploited because global capitalism makes them dependent on the rich countries that create exploitative rules for trade and production. |
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| A body of theory that treats the capitalistic world economy originating in the sixteenth century as an interconnected unit of analysis enxompassing the entire globe, with an international division of labor and multiple political cneters and cultures whose rules constrain and shape the behavior of all transnational actors. |
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