Actors
Threats and Promises
Perceptions
Security Policy
Structural Theory
100
Actors we treat like individuals even though they are often comprised of many people
What is a corporate actor
100
Effective threats hinge on ________. (2)
What is credibility and consequences
100
Attempts to persuade that do not involve costly signals
What is Cheap Talk
100
Ability to win wars by defeating the enemy in battle
What is Military Power
100
Balance of power theory assumes that international system is ________.
What is an anarchy (self-help system)
200
Name 3 examples of Corporate actors.
Firms, government agencies, states, etc.
200
The strongest type of threat
What is Ultimatum
200
Probabilities across the set of possibilities
What is Perceptions
200
Where do national capabilities come from? (2)
What is the people of a country and what they produce
200
Central actors in world politics in Balance of Power theory
What is States
300
States should be treated as one individual actor
What is Unitary Actor Assumption
300
How likely the threatener is to carry the threat out
What is Credibility
300
Both types of one actor take the same action; another actor cannot learn about the actor's type from observing the action
What is Pooling
300
Two tools a state can use to increase its security
What is Arming and Alliance
300
This leads to a growth of the country's population and also their range of skills
What is Industrialization
400
Name three things that actors could be uncertain about:
(1) Facts (2) Interpretation of facts (3) Consequences of one's own actions But of course, these are just examples; you can say other things.
400
Whether the target is sufficiently convinced of the credibility of the threat that it does as the threatener wants.
What is Effectiveness
400
What separates the resolved from the bluffers?
What is the willingness to risk war (costly signals)
400
Two factors drive the choice between arming and alliances
(1) How much security you will get considering the speed and reliability of each (2) Domestic political costs
400
Balance of Power theory emphasizes _________________ among the major powers
distribution of power
500
a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within its borders
What is Internal Autonomy
500
Name three factors that create a commitment problem that threatens the settlement
(1) Change in capabilities (2) Change in leadership (3) Time inconsistency
500
The settlement a state views as equivalent to going to war
What is Reservation Point
500
When a state's commitment to an alliance is so strong that its ally leads it into a war it did not want.
What is Entrapment
500
Three elements of national power increase as a country industrializes
(1) economy (2) population (3) political capacity
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