Liberal arts
These are the three "Bs" of international organizations.
What is buildings, budgets, and bureaucrats?
Mearsheimer contends that this is the most stable balance of power.
What is bipolarity?
This is the name for an exceptionally strong norm against a certain kind of behavior.
What is taboo?
In Bell's account, the Thirty Years War Hypothesis argues that the Two World Wars are part of one major war with a break in hostilities. The counter-argument argues this event actually led to WWII.
What is the Great Depression?
Graham Allison says that this dominant conceptual model does not accurately represent how foreign policy decisions actually are made.
What is the rational policy model?
Liberals focus on this type of gain in power in international politics.
What is absolute gain?
Kenneth Waltz bases his arguments for why Iran should get the bomb on this theory.
Rational deterrence theory.
These are the three major steps in the norm life cycle.
What is norm emergence, cascade, and internalization?
What is moralist, skeptic, and cosmopolitan?
If the Afghanistan withdrawal was the product of a debate among President Biden's cabinet members, this conceptual model would best explain the outcome.
What is bureaucratic politics model?
Neoliberal institutionalism is a branch of liberalism that believes states can cooperate through institutions because they reduce uncertainty, reduce transaction cost, and reinforce this.
What is reciprocity?
Realists would explain the failure to cement lasting peace post-WWI this way.
What is Germany sought to return to its previous position/states failed to balance against Germany's threat?
According to the moralist school of ethics, this norm is the most powerful in international politics.
What is sovereignty?
These are the three distinct "gaps" that can be present in weak states, according to Call.
What is security gap, legitimacy gap, and capacity gap?
This is a cognitive bias that may affect individual decision makers and cause deviations from rationality.
What is loss aversion/simplicity bias/poor estimator?
The greatest debate within the Democratic Peace Theory Literature is the reason (aka causal logic) why democracies don't go to war. These are the two primary mechanisms (logics).
What is institutional and normative?
In Mearsheimer's offensive realism, unless you're the hegemon, you are this kind of state.
What is revisionist?
These are the four elements that determine a state's perception of threat, according to Walt's balance of threat theory.
What is aggregate power, offensive power, proximate power, and offensive intentions.
Sagan argues that these are the three requirements for stable deterrence.
What is no preventive war, no accidental/unauthorized use, and second strike survivability?
When policymakers draw conclusions about something that support what they already believe to be true, they are experiencing this psychological phenomenon.
What is confirmation bias?
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
This scholar argues that in the age of nuclear weapons, military force is not so much exercised as threaten
Who is Thomas Schelling?
Constructivists explain the failure of interwar peace as a function of this.
What is weak norms, especially around nationalism and sovereignty?
According to Mansfield and Henisz, this is one major obstacle to free trade, or political determinant of commercial openness.
What is veto points/interest groups/regime type?
This world is doubly safe, according to Jervis.
What is the fourth world/a world in which the defense has the advantage and there is offense-defense distinguishability?