Introduction
This is the common concept of the international system across realism, constructivism, and liberalism
What is anarchic
Collaboration can be illustrated through this canonical game
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma
The range of deals that both states would theoretically prefer to war is called this.
What is the bargaining range?
Describe the general trend of global democracy
NATO is an example of this kind of alliance
What is defensive
This level of analysis is the relationship between two countries
What is dyadic
This is the definition of what concept
"the expectation that states have legal and political supremacy within their territorial boundaries"
What is sovereignty?
These are the two broad categories of 'unknowns' that make incomplete information a problem in bargaining.
What are capabilities and resolve?
The capitalist peace is an alternative explanation for this theory
What is the democratic peace theory
This type of security institution facilitates bargaining (and therefore peace) by 1) increasing the costs of war; 2) outsiders resolving commitment problems; and 3) peacekeepers diminish first strike advantages by positioning themselves between adversaries
What are collective security institutions
If we are interested in talking about the relationships between the states in South America, we would call this the _____ level of analysis
What is regional?
Name two of the six ways that states can better facilitate cooperation
What are
- Smaller groups with powerful actors
- Iteration (repeated interactions)
- Linkage (issue linkage)
- strategies of reciprocal punishment
- information (e.g. monitoring agencies)
- Institutions
Deterrence and compellence are forms of coercive bargaining. This is the difference between the two
What is Deterrence involves threats to keep the status quo whereas compellence involves threats to change it?
This is the definition of this concept
"the political ideology that prioritizes attachment to one’s nation, where nations are groups defined by common origin, ethnicity, language, or cultural ties"
What is nationalism
These are the three big reasons why alliances make war less likely
What are:
- Balance of power
- deterrence
- reduction of uncertainty
This quote is an example of what paradigm?
"Notwithstanding the Westphalian dilemma, nations have overcome many transnational conflicts and spillovers through international agreements... Countries enter into agreements because joint action can take into account the spillover effects among the participants (Nordhaus 2015, pg 1340)."
What is liberalism?
These are the two reasons why states would comply with institutions
What are:
- They facilitate long-run cooperation
- they are costly to build
The Cuban Missile crisis, in which the US set up a naval blockade to stop Russia from putting nuclear weapons on Cuba, is an example of this type of strategy for states to making threats credible.
What is brinksmanship?
Name two of the causes of the rally effect
What are:
- increase in patriotism
- ease opposition's criticism
- creates a diversion from other problems
- gives leaders a scapegoat
These are the two UN-based security activities that have been largely successful
What are peace enforcement and peacekeeping?
Name two ways that feminism as a paradigm differs from realism
What are:
- Impacts on the individual instead of state
- Shifts focus to finding solutions
- Gender is organizing principle instead of power
When we think about strategic interactions, these are the two assumptions that we make about actors
What are:
- Actors are purposive
-Actors adopt strategies they think are the best response to others' strategies
Name one (of three) finding about war that commitment problems can help explain
What are:
- Wars over valuable territory
- Why rapid changes in war can be dangerous
- Why wars preceded by large power shifts can last longer than those without
Describe how hawkish domestic interests affect the likelihood of conflict (using the bargaining model as a touch point)
What is The existence of the military industrial complex or having hawks in the bureaucratic structure or within interest groups can create bargaining failure increasing the value of war and thus narrowing the bargaining range
What are:
- deciding what acts are considered threats
- deciding what states are aggressors
- deciding what to do about aggression
- how might changes to SQ occur