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World Politics ch1&2 kt,marj,britt
Chapters 1 & 2
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
10/06/2014

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Classic Liberalism
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Adam Smith's theory that an economy corrects itself without government supervision, became U.S conservatism
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National Interest
Definition
What is good for a country as a whole in international relations, often disputed
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Rational
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able to think clearly and test ideas against reality
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crusade
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in realist thought, an ideological war unrelated to the true national interest
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Duopoly
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two big power dominate
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Power
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ability of one to get another to do it's bidding
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Bipolar
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the world divided into 2 power centers as in the cold war.
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multipolar
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the world divided into many power centers
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balance of power
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theory that states form alliances to offset threatening states
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interwar
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between ww1 and ww2, 1919-1939
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theory
Definition
explanation of why things happen
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unipolar
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the world dominated by one power center
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stratified
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power distributed in layers
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constructivism
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mental constructs, formed by social interaction, govern thinking
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construct
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idea so widely accepted that it seems to be a fact
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empirical
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support by observable evidence
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paradigm
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widely accepted research model or way of studying things
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liberalism
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presumption that countries can interact peacefully
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