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A State has control over territory and ability to govern itself.
What is sovereignty?
100
View the world in competitive terms. In a realist view, global politics is dominated by states.
What is the realist perspective in global politics?
100
Refers to an actor or an action being commonly considered acceptable and provides the fundamental basis or rationale for all forms of governance and other ways of exercising power over others.
What is the definition of Legitimacy?
100
This IGO was founded in 1945 to promote world peace and security.
What is the U.N. (United Nations)?
100
Restrictions on media freedom, judicial independence, or electoral manipulation are signs of this.
What is democratic backsliding?
100
This refers to the mutual reliance between and among groups, organizations, geographic areas and/or states for access to resources that sustain living arrangements.
What is interdependence?
200
This sociologist defined legitimacy as the belief in the rightfulness of authority.
Who is Max Weber?
200
Scholars of this international relations theory disagree that the conflict is at the center of the international system and, instead, stress cooperation between state and non-state actors.
What is liberalism?
200
This type of legitimacy is based on legal rules and bureaucratic authority.
What is legal-rational legitimacy?
200
Adopted by the UN in 2005, this asserts that states have to shield their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, and that the international community must step in if a state fails to do so. Challenging state sovereignty when invoked.
What is R2P? (Responsibility to Protect)
200
In this 2016 example, the people voted and decided they would be better off breaking away from a supranational organization to control their own immigration policies and justice systems.
What is Brexit?
200
These profit-seeking entities operate across borders and can undermine state authority.
What are transnational corporations (TNCs)?
300
These are Max Weber's types of legitimacy. (Must name two of the three)
What are traditional, charismatic, or legal-rational legitimacy?
300
Output legitimacy is primarily concerned with this.
What is policy effectiveness and delivering results?
300
What are the key features of authoritarian regimes?
The key features of authoritarian regimes include highly concentrated and centralized government power, political repression, exclusion of potential challengers, and the erosion of the rule of law and democratic voting procedures
300
This international organization can limit state sovereignty through binding resolutions that could include direct action or sanctions.
What is the UN SEC? (UN Security Council)
300
The Syrian Civil War began in this year.
What is 2011?
300
Indigenous land claims challenge sovereignty by asserting this principle.
What is self-determination?
400
The only actors in international relations with their own sovereignty; all other actors derive their abilities to act from them in some way. This sovereignty allows them to set the rules that structure how their citizens interact on the international stage
Who are state actors in global politics?
400
Legal-rational legitimacy is based on this.
What is the Rule of Law and bureaucratic competency?
400
A government that holds free elections but fails to provide basic services lacks this type of legitimacy.
What is output legitimacy?
400
AU, CEMAC, COMESA, and MRU are all examples of these.
What are regional supranational organizations in Africa?
400
In this democratic system, the executive is accountable to, and selected from, the legislature. (Bonus- Name two)
What is a Parliamentary system? (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, Germany, and Italy)
400
A rise in this global trend often accompanies democratic backsliding.
What is rise of populism or authoritarianism?
500
Traditional legitimacy is most commonly associated with this form of governance.
What is monarchy or hereditary rule?
500
A theoretical approach that emphasizes the role of the capitalist mode of production in shaping the international system. According to this perspective, the modern sovereign state-system and the capitalist mode of production are interconnected, and this is the main source of instability in the international system.
What is the Marxist perspective in global politics?
500
This type of legitimacy is strengthened by inclusive decision-making processes like citizen assemblies.
What is input legitimacy? (will also accept bottom-up)
500
Along with the Freedom in the World Report (Freedom House), this is another international index that measures democratic backsliding.
What is the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) or EIU Democracy Index?
500
In Spain, France, and Belgium, this bottom-up technique has been employed to increase the legitimacy of state decision making by including citizen input.
What is deliberative democracy? (Will also accept citizen assembly)
500
After a coup, the international community may refuse to recognize the leaders of a state. Crime that crosses borders like drug or human trafficking. Economic sanctions placed by the international community. These are all examples of this concept.
What are EXTERNAL challenges to state legitimacy?