Introduction
Resistance to globalization, or an active return to traditional communities, customs, and religion.
What is antiglobalization?
The doctrine and policy of a form of extreme nationalism characterized by rejection of individual and political freedoms; by open racism and bigotry; and by state control of industry, finance, and commerce.
What is fascism?
The lack of executive power above individual states capable of regulating their relations.
What is anarchy?
Approaches to international relations that emphasize economic, social, and political inequality as a source of contradictions and tensions among social groups.
What are conflict theories?
The strategy of maintaining nuclear weapons with the intention not to use them but to deter others from launching a nuclear attack.
What is nuclear deterrence?
A large group of people sharing common cultural, religious, and linguistic features and distinguishing themselves from other large social groups.
What is a nation?
A type of government in which power rests with citizens, not with an autocratic ruler.
What is a republic?
A state's ability to protect its own security and impose its will on other states and actors.
What is power?
The view that politicians act, for the most part, logically, to maximize positive outcomes and to minimize negative outcomes.
What is the rational model?
Political violence by identifiable, irregular combat units, usually to seize state power, win autonomy, or found new states.
What is guerrilla warfare?
The supremacy of authority exercised by a state over its population and its territory.
What is sovereignty?
Individual and collective identification with a country or a nation.
What is nationalism?
The coordination of of foreign policy with allies; participation international coalitions, blocs, and international organizations.
What is multilateralism?
The rule that a leader tends to pick the option that is most easily available.
What is accessibility bias?
An arrangement in which the security of one country becomes the concern of others as well.
What is collective security?
The idea that the same cause can lead to multiple outcomes.
What is multifinality?
A strategy of approaching the verge of an open conflict with the expectation that the enemy would "blink" first, bargain, or back off.
What is brinkmanship?
A situation in which one state's efforts to improve its security cause insecurity in others.
What is a security dilemma?
A point of view or social movement distinguished by rigid adherence to principles rooted in tradition (typically religious tradition) and often by intolerance of individual rights and secularism.
What is fundamentalism?
A policy of nonintervention, and also nonparticipation in international alliances, organizations, and collective security efforts.
What is isolationism?
A research method that systematically organizes and summarizes both what was actually said or written and its hidden meanings.
What is content analysis?
The right to rule accepted by the people and other states.
What is legitimacy?
A system of politics and principles based on realities of power rather than moral or ideological considerations.
What is realpolitik?
A way of thinking and a movement identifying itself not with nation-states but rather with a religious or ethnic group.
What is tribalism?
Military action launched by a state to protect itself when it believes that other states might threaten it in the future.
What is preventive war?