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Power

Ability to achieve goals 

Coercive power example

Military

Institutional power

Agreements

Soft Power

Shared values and purposes 

Structural power

Resided in the structure of social relations

Purpose

What actors want

Actors of power

• States

• Individuals 

• Bureaucracies 

• Firms 

• NGOs

• International organizations

• Terrorist groups

Sources of terrorism

Individuals’ frustration and alienation

How likely is World War III

Not very, would be stupid- nuclear weapons

Model of policial science

Six step process 

Firs step in model of political science 

Begin with a question that is clearly defined 

Second step in model of political science

Identify potential answers

Third step in political model

Determine what patterns we would observe if each hypothsis were true

Fourth step in political model

Decide how to define and measure the key factors

Fifth step in political model

Choose a research method 

Sixth step in political science method

Evaluate the findings

What is a theory

A generalized explanation on a set of essential similar phenomena

Level of analysis

Individual, Substate, State, or system

Why do theories use level of analysis

To explain a political behavior

What are theories used for

Explanation, Predicion, Prescription

Explanation

Common causes shared by a set of events

Prediction

What is the next given the existing condition

Prescription

What do we do 

What is state sovereignty

Complete authority over territory

Internal sovereignty

No right to challenge ruler’s power

External sovereignty

Outsiders have no right to interfere

What is pluralism

Accepting multiple political and religious authorities in Europe

Recognition of sovereignty leads to

legitimacy

Anarchy

No central ruler or government

Balance of power

No single state is sufficiently power to defeat the others

Law of War

Moral objections to unlimited war

What was the Peloponnesian War

A war between Athens and and Sparta from 431 BCE to 404 BCE

Thucydides argued that 

Discussions of justice had no place in international politics 

What emerged after the collapse of the roman empire 

A feudal system

What is a feudal system

A political system in which legal and political subservience is owed to multiple overlapping authorities 

The Westphilian Sy

stemChanging nature of international politics 

Nationalism

A group with a sense of similarity disticnt from others

What does nationalism lead to

National self-determination

Concert of Europe

Sought to prevent another country from seekinf dominance over continent

Colonialism

A dominating state takes direct control of a territory

What was the spark that ignired World War I

Assationation of Archduek Franz Ferdinand 

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Created League of Nations

Economic roots of World War II

Global depression, Burden of reparations of Germany, US embargo on Japan

Ideological roots of World War II

Facism- militant nationalimsm, superiority of one nation to others

Realism

An approach that focuses on the role of state power in an anarchic world where insecurity is high

What does Realism see power as

The main determinant of outcomes and sees the pursuit as the main determinant of policies 

Liberalism

States have a range of goals beyond accruing power and that cooperation is often as important as power in achieving state aims

What are the central concents for many theories in international politics

Behavior of states and the actions of other kinds of actors are assumed to be less important

What are the five paradigms of international politics

Realism, Liberalism, Economic structuralism (Marxism), Constructivism, Feminism

Paradigm

Describes an approach to a prblem shared by a group of scholars 

Economic Structuralims system

World System Theory, Dependency Theory

Economic Structuralism State level

State working on behalf of the capitalist class

Substate level of Economic Structuralism

Firms dominating politics

System level of Constructivism

Systemic norms like soveirgnty

State level of Contructivism

Identity politics

Sibstate level of Constructivism

Transnational actors, NGOs

System level of Feminism

Gendered nature of systemic international relations theory

State level of Feminism

States as a gendered construction

Substate level of Feminism

Effects of separating public from private

Individual level of Feminism 

Effects of international politics on women

Sytem level of Realism

Balance of power theory, Hegemonic stability theory

State level of Realism 

Revisionist versus status quo powers