Liberalism
Realism
Constructivism
Foreign Policy Theories
Historical Cases
100

Democratic states are unlikely to go to war with other democratic states

What is the Democratic Peace Theory?

100
Most steps a state takes to increase its own security reduces the security of other states

What is the security dilemma?

100

Definition of a Norm

What is an appropriate behavior for actors of a given identity?

100

3 Individual Leader Traits that increase likelihood of war

What are (1) risk-tolerance, (2) delusional, and (3) having grandiose visions?

100

Spruyt's 3 explanations for the formation of modern states

What are (1) war, (2) economy, and (3) institutions?

200

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?

200

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?

200

The Steps of the Norm Cycle

What is norm emergence, tipping point, norm cascade, and norm internalization?

200

Allison's model which argues that "where you sit is where you stand"

What is the Bureaucratic Politics Model?

200

Jervis' name for the "world" that pre-WWI Europe lived in given the geography and technology of the time period

What is a "doubly stable" world?
300

The three causal logics of Neoliberal Institutionalism

What are (1) establish reciprocity, (2) reduce transaction costs, and (3) reduce uncertainty?

300
The 4x dimensions that state's use to assess threat

What are (1) proximate power, (2) aggregate power, (3) offensive power, and (4) offensive intentions?

300

Definition of Nationalism

What is the political principle which holds that the national and political units should be congruent? 

or 

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?

300

Ethical view which considers state borders to hold moral meaning

What is state moralism?

300

foreign policy explanation of the outbreak of WW1 (explanation that states are not behaving as rational actors) 

What is cult of the offensive?

400

The two causal logics of the democratic peace theory

What are the (1) normative logic and the (2) institutional logic?

400

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?

400

Name for an individual important in norm emergence

What is a norm entrepreneur?

400

Allison's model which considers SOPs and procedures to play a key role in foreign policy decisions

What is the organizational process model?

400

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?

500

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.

500

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? 

500

The constructivists' beliefs about anarchy

What are the multiple logics of anarchy (anarchy between friends versus anarchy between enemies and everything in between)?

500

Psychological bias which explains that people tend to value losses more than gains (Stein)

What is loss aversion?

500

Treaty in which the UK promised to guarantee the borders between Germany, France, and Belgium

What is the Locarno Pact?