world politics
global politics
final
world
politics
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DEF: The subjects of rationalism are guided a logic of consequences defines as acting in a rational way to maximize self or individual interests. SIG: Herke uses this to draw a contrast between the rationalist an constructivist viewpoints on the relationships between the subjects and the state.
What is Rationalist’/ logic of consequences:
100
DEF: Highlights the subordinate position of women in global politics and investigates the causes of subordination within a positivist framework. SIG: Liberal feminist uses social scientific methods to quantify how women’s roles in IR influence international policymaking.
What is Liberal Feminism:
100
DEF: The fear that given the demise of objectivity we are unable to make judgment that had been central to understanding modern life namely distinguishing true from false and good and bad. SIG: This term is used by Bernstein to describe the reaction to post empiricists demonstrations of an unstable dichotomist framework which meant the elimination of a secure foundation in ethics and politics.
What is Cartesian anxiety
100
DEF: focuses on the way that ideas about danger shape and are shaped by global politics SIG: Prugle uses it to bring attention to the fact that power is codified by gender at every level of politics evidenced by the treatment of home based worked in international negotiations and international law.
What is Femenist Constructivism
100
Cartesian anxiety
What is DEF: The fear that given the demise of objectivity we are unable to make judgment that had been central to understanding modern life namely distinguishing true from false and good and bad. SIG: This term is used by Bernstein to describe the reaction to post empiricists demonstrations of an unstable dichotomist framework which meant the elimination of a secure foundation in ethics and politics.
200
DEF: War’s are fought by men to protect the vulnerable (women and children). SIG: According to Sjoberg feminist critique of the myth of protection, wars are justified under the guise of protecting the vulnerable but the closing of the 20th century almost 90 percent of civilian casualties were constituted of women and children. The myth leads to the presumption that women are immune from war and it is used to uphold the legitimacy of war.
What is The Myth of Protection:
200
DEF: concerns the interior/exterior binary structure of the human experience where the inside is deemed as primary good and original and the outside as secondary bad and derivative. SIG: Post structuralism use the critique of inside outside dualism to emphasize the importance of cultural practices in giving meaning to binary pairs through inclusions and exclusions which are historically produced.
What is Inside/Outside Dualism
200
DEF: that development of mass production industry in exchange for real wages which in turn would grow along with productivity. SIG: According to Marxism on a global scale Fordism was responsible for the development of a world economy hospitable to the Growth of U.S. centered Capitalism. This oil dependent industrialized capitalist structure, has led to foreign policy decision based on oil accumulation. Economic Determinism:
What is Fordism
200
DEF: that an observer can capture the facts of the world in statements that are true only if they correspond to the facts and false if they do not. SIG: One of 3 Empiricists assumptions which constituted the base of Enlightenment thought which greatly influenced theorists like Hanz Morgenthau.
What is Correspondence Theory of Truth
200
Inside/Outside Dualism
What is DEF: concerns the interior/exterior binary structure of the human experience where the inside is deemed as primary good and original and the outside as secondary bad and derivative. SIG: Post structuralism use the critique of inside outside dualism to emphasize the importance of cultural practices in giving meaning to binary pairs through inclusions and exclusions which are historically produced.
300
DEF: discourse makes up, defines or brings into being the objects of which it speaks. Subjects are also a product of discourse. SIG: David Campbell uses the term in his essay on Poststructuralism to articulate the point that there is no way of comprehending non-linguistic and extra-discursive phenomena except through discursive practice. Performative means that discourses constitute the objects of which they speak. He uses the idea of the state as an example which is constituted of discursive practices.
What is Discourse as performance:
300
DEF: The notion that world-systems consist of a global division of labor in which “core” countries dominate and exploit “peripheral” areas. SIG: Wallerstein uses it as an explanation for the emergence of a balance of power mechanism which thwarted historical attempt at global empire but allows for the rise of economically powerful hegemonic states who don’t seek universal dominance.
What is Wallerstein's modern world system:
300
Def: Idea where processes intrinsic to the economy are the primary determinants of social and political life. Sig: The idea was advocated by Lenin as the main driving force behind expansion of imperialist powers.
What is Economic Determinism:
300
DEF: Humans are shaped by virtue of the relations encompassing the natural world ,social relations and institutions, and human persons. SIG: Marx argued that Adam Smith’s liberal ideology ,which claimed that self interest was hard-wired in indivudals, was rather the result of the virtue of the relations by which they produced their lives.
What is Process oriented view of human beings
300
Wallerstein's modern world system
What is DEF: The notion that world-systems consist of a global division of labor in which “core” countries dominate and exploit “peripheral” areas. SIG: Wallerstein uses it as an explanation for the emergence of a balance of power mechanism which thwarted historical attempt at global empire but allows for the rise of economically powerful hegemonic states who don’t seek universal dominance.
400
DEF: Is a technique of power based in language and processes of translation of the identities, cultures, and religion of the Middle East through which western powers created an interpretation that only partially bore resemblance to the place it described. SIG: The term was developed by Edward Said in his book Orientalism which help explain why Europe developed the policies it did to the orient region during colonial conquest.
What is Orientalism:
400
DEF: People are unable to see themselves a repressed class. SIG: According to Marxist critique of liberal ideology since the repressive hypothesis does not allow people to perceive themselves as an underclass it would take a crisis to awaken them to the fact.
What is Repressive Hypothesis:
400
DEF: the destruction of civilian economic infrastructure and withholding of medical and nutritional care during a military campaign. SIG: This feminist critique draws attention to the fact that in preserving state security of members of the international community may violate the security of their own and others’ most marginal citizens notably women, children, the poor and the sick.
What is Structural Violence:
400
DEF: The cultural economic, social and political formations within modernity resulting from the acceleration of the compression of time and space relations, and hyper-consumerism in the globalized era. SIG: Post modernism is related to Post structuralism in that post structuralism offers an interpretive analytic that critically engages with the production and implication of post modern transformation.
What is Post-Modernism-
400
Theory as object of analysis
What is :DEF: The investigation of the cultural, economic, social, and political practices that constitute actors whom are capable of representation. A theory is treated as the object of analysis rather than a tool for analysis. SIG: In post-structuralist critiques of IR this method of critique is employed to analyze why certain theorists or theories are privileged and others are marginalized. Historical materialism:
500
DEF: The investigation of the cultural, economic, social, and political practices that constitute actors whom are capable of representation. A theory is treated as the object of analysis rather than a tool for analysis. SIG: In post-structuralist critiques of IR this method of critique is employed to analyze why certain theorists or theories are privileged and others are marginalized.
What is Theory as object of analysis:
500
The notion that a commodity based society is historically produced by social structure. SIG: Marxism highlight that given the fact that a commodity based society is historically produced and not an intrinsic quality of human nature there is the possibility of change in social context enabling us to produce a more equitable and democratic social system.
What is Historical materialism:
500
Ethnic Cleansing
What is DEF: the imposing of a dominant culture over another existing culture achieved through various strategies of subjugation including genocide SIG: According to Orientalism the West has a legitimate claim to ethnic subordination based on regimes of truth which legitimize violence and Western commandments.
500
The Myth of Protection:
What is DEF: War’s are fought by men to protect the vulnerable (women and children). SIG: According to Sjoberg feminist critique of the myth of protection, wars are justified under the guise of protecting the vulnerable but the closing of the 20th century almost 90 percent of civilian casualties were constituted of women and children. The myth leads to the presumption that women are immune from war and it is used to uphold the legitimacy of war.
500
Rationalist’/ logic of consequences:
What is DEF: The subjects of rationalism are guided a logic of consequences defines as acting in a rational way to maximize self or individual interests. SIG: Herke uses this to draw a contrast between the rationalist an constructivist viewpoints on the relationships between the subjects and the state.
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