International Politics #1 Essay Options

Levels of Analysis

Unit that a theory focuses on for a general exploration or explanation

Global or Systemic Level of Analysis

Focuses on internatonal relations by focusing on the global systems as a whole

• emphasizes interactions between and among states and structures of international systems - such as international organizations and treaties

• examines how global processes- including power distribution, international norms,, influence state behavior and out comes- providing a broader understanding of global affairs

Domestic Level of Analysis

Individual factors taht are present in a nation state

• what is it’s political and economic systems?

• how important is the military or individual rights in the nation state?

• Does it have a history of democracy?

Individual Level of Analysis

Focuses on decision makers within a state and how the constraints that stae places on them affect their chosen causes of actions

• rules associated with their positions limit what leaders can do

Power

The Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intentions.

• Person A gets Person B to behave as Person A wants

Coercion Power

Ability to compel someone to do or not do do something through the use of force and/or threats

Structural Power

Norms, Values, and Beliefs baked into the system- akin to political culture

• things so accepted and ingrained- they are in every part of society- they are largely unquestioned

• these are accepted as what soceity does and thinks- relflected in informal and formal structures

Institutional Power

Power based on rules established by a government or organization

• less ingrained than structural power

• rules can change more easily

Soft Power

Power to persuade people to do or not to do something

• comes through good interpersonal skills or winning peoples opinions

• Can also mean that people/states try to imitate something a person/state did in another jurisdiction

Collaborative Power

Additional power created when multiple actors work toward a shared goal

Treaty of Versailles

1919; Changes to International Relations

Treaty of Versailles: Establishment of League of Nations

An international organization formed after WW1 to resolve disputes without force

Treaty of Versailles: Several Countries Eestablished in Eastern Europe

• Czechezolvakia

• Yugoslavia

• Poland

• Istonia

• Latvia

• Lithuania

Treaty of Versailles: United States became a Super Power

War contributed to the rise of industrialism, military, and financial power of the United States

Treaty of Versailles: Collective Security

A doctrine nominally adopted after WW1 that specified:

• when one state commited agression, all other states would join together to attack the aggressor

• required all states to agree to attack the aggressor

• Because many states were hoping to stay out of war, this didn’t work so well

Treat of Versailles: Return to US Isolationism

The U.S. did not join the League of Nations because the senate did not want to submit to going to war if needed

Treaty of Versailles: Appeasement

Strategy of avoiding war by acceding to the demands of rival powers