Geopolitical Theory
Realism asserts that the international order is in a state of this.
What is anarchy?
The Iron Triangle of Real Statism consists of these three elements.
What are the state, the nation, and war?
The real-statist mode of protection is fitted to these material attributes.
What are violence, poverty, and slowness?
Geographical attribute that led to increased technological innovation and outward colonization through competition among states.
What is the natural republic of Europe?
The geographical formation of a state that is friendly to republics.
What are islands?
This theoretical perspective asserts that material conditions in distinct historical stages determines modes of production.
An internal political structure generated by real-statism.
What is the hier-state?
Doing more with less.
What is ephemeralization?
The tribune in the Roman republic possessed this power.
What is the veto?
The form of military that prevents a government from subduing its own population.
What is the navy/a naval power?
This perspective claims that agency is not exclusive to humans.
What is new materialism?
Republican security theory addresses this missed concept in realist thought.
What is internal/external hierarchy, OR, what is crush?
Nuclear weapons + the planetary era lead to this indicator of the state of nature.
What is intense violence interdependence?
This theorist posited that peoples residing in non-fertile environments would be more war-like.
Who is Ibn Khaldun?
England embodies this concept defined by water as a buffer.
What is insularity?
Mahan, Mackinder, and Spykman are major thinkers in this theoretical tradition.
What is Classical Global Geopolitics?
This term describes the ability of a governmental system to influence down to the individual level.
What is penetration?
Describes whether a master asset will consolidate into the hands of a single actor.
What is integral tendency?
Polybius' word for the relations of power that occur WITHOUT the model of the Roman republic.
Balancing of anarchical and hierarchical extremes through insulation of water and naval power.
What is maritime whiggery?
This theory asserts that geopolitical claims are interpretations of the world rather than descriptions of it, and are always power laden.
What is Constructivist Post-Modern Geography?
The practices of the republican federalist mode of protection.
What are: power de-concentration, accountable power, de-mobilization of power, deceleration of power, weaponization, symmetrical co-binding & transparency?
This development increases coupling throughout a system.
What is technological communication?
The liberal internationalist program prioritized these two developments in the international system.
What are the moderation of anarchy with international law AND the limitation of hierarchy through democracy promotion?
The effects of sea connections for a polity.
What are increased trade, mobile wealth, and mercantile self-protection?