Military and economic sanctions
What is hard power?
Origin of sovereignty
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
Egoism + anarchy =
What is power politics?
He believed the state of nature was nasty, brutish and short.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Using both soft and hard power to get what you want
What is smart power?
Authority within a state
What is internal sovereignty?
According to realists these are the most important actors in global politics.
What are states?
What is a hegemon?
persuasion, influence
Defined territory
Permanent population
Effective government
Capacity to enter into relations with other states
What are the features of a state?
Realists argue that the balance of power is this.
What is a zero-sum game?
Used to make sense of what is going on in this complex world. It both shapes and is shaped by traditions, beliefs, values, and experiences.
What is theory?
Using your relationship with a person to influence them to do what you want.
The capacity to act as an independent authority on the world stage
What is external sovereignty?
The drive for power and the will to dominate are the fundamental aspects of human nature.
What is classical realism?
Persuasion and attraction is another way to describe this type of power.
What is soft power?
The spread of economic power in our world today is an example of this.
What is multipolar?
Permeable borders
What is one impact of globalization on sovereignty?
This type of realism believes that security competition and interstate conflict is the product of a lack of an overarching authority above states (international anarchy) and the relative distribution of power in the international system.
What is structural realism?
Actors in the global system that do not belong to a specific state.
What are non-state actors?