International Relations Midterm

Human nature, "Struggle for power" (Morganthou), "All men are bad" (Machiavelli), Might makes right.

Anarchy

Human nature and regime type. 1: man is inherently good 2: government acts responsibly through spread of democracy (individual and state levels)

Regime type and international factors (state and international). Consequences of anarchy can be mitigated by spread of democracy, diplomacy, international law and institution, interdependece.

Ideas that form idententities which result in use of power and negotiations by those people.

Focuses on poilitical change that unfolds from history.

Individuals/small group of individuals make decisions and cause events using power, institutions, or ideas. Personality, emotions, perception, human nature, psyhology.

Focuses on domestic features of a country as a whole, such as capitalist economic system or nationalist ideology, from which the causes of a realist, liberal, or identity perspective come. Culture, democracy,corps, health care.

Identifies causes that come from the positioning and interaction of states in teh international system. Treaties, trade, embargoes, interactions, UN, IGO, INGO, distribution of resources.

Hyptheses/ explanations that emphasize one of the three causes (power, institutions, or ideas) of world events over the others.

The direction, of "level" from whic different causes of international change emerge .

Policy relationships b/w governments, national armed forces, and industrial support that make weapons for war that will resut in profits

Ideas that express deep moral convictions.

Methods that assume that casual factors can be disaggregated and described objectively, explaining one event by a second event occurring in sequences.

Methods that pay more attention to the way that meaning is formed discursively, through language, and that see events as mutally causing or constituting one another rather than causing one another sequentially.