Liberalism
Democratic states are unlikely to go to war with other democratic states
What is the Democratic Peace Theory?
What is the security dilemma?
Definition of a Norm
What is an appropriate behavior for actors of a given identity?
3 Individual Leader Traits that increase likelihood of war
What are (1) risk-tolerance, (2) delusional, and (3) having grandiose visions?
Spruyt's 3 explanations for the formation of modern states
What are (1) war, (2) economy, and (3) institutions?
Definition of Commercial Liberalism
What is the theory that holds that when states increase their economic interdependence (trade) with each other, they are less likely to go to war with each other?
Definition of realist economic interdependence theory
What is the theory that says that states which trade more with each other are more likely to go to war with each other?
The Steps of the Norm Cycle
What is norm emergence, tipping point, norm cascade, and norm internalization?
Allison's model which argues that "where you sit is where you stand"
What is the Bureaucratic Politics Model?
Jervis' name for the "world" that pre-WWI Europe lived in given the geography and technology of the time period
The three causal logics of Neoliberal Institutionalism
What are (1) establish reciprocity, (2) reduce transaction costs, and (3) reduce uncertainty?
What are (1) proximate power, (2) aggregate power, (3) offensive power, and (4) offensive intentions?
Definition of Nationalism
What is the political principle which holds that the national and political units should be congruent?
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What is the political principle that says that people identify their self-interest with that of their nation and that nations should have their own states?
Ethical view which considers state borders to hold moral meaning
What is state moralism?
foreign policy explanation of the outbreak of WW1 (explanation that states are not behaving as rational actors)
What is cult of the offensive?
The two causal logics of the democratic peace theory
What are the (1) normative logic and the (2) institutional logic?
The 2x reasons states bandwagon
What are (1) to appease the most powerful/most threatening state and (2) to share in the spoils of war?
Name for an individual important in norm emergence
What is a norm entrepreneur?
Allison's model which considers SOPs and procedures to play a key role in foreign policy decisions
What is the organizational process model?
Japan's attack on US forces at Pearl Harbor and other wars started by states that launch an attack in response to a future threat
What is preventive war?
The causal logic of commercial liberalism
It is safer and more efficient to trade than to go to war in order to secure goods and resources. Mutual dependence may even prevent a state's ability to wage war against another state because they may not have the necessary goods and resources to do so.
The five neorealist assumptions
What are (1) The number one goal of states is survival, (2) the international system is anarchic, (3) states are rational actors, (4) states are uncertain about other states' intentions, and (5) great powers have offensive capabilities?
The constructivists' beliefs about anarchy
What are the multiple logics of anarchy (anarchy between friends versus anarchy between enemies and everything in between)?
Psychological bias which explains that people tend to value losses more than gains (Stein)
What is loss aversion?
Treaty in which the UK promised to guarantee the borders between Germany, France, and Belgium
What is the Locarno Pact?