Definitions
The ability to influence other groups in global politics and achieve outcomes.
What is power?
The co-founder or neoliberalism, and instrumental in the development of soft power.
What is Joseph Nye?
A method of hard power, and can be used to measure development.
What is economic power?
This nation has the largest military budget, with nearly 800 bases around the world and annual spending of approx. 600 billion.
What is the United States?
The size of armies, economies, populations, etc.
What is measuring power as resources?
The reliance and influence of states on one another.
What is interdependence?
Italian dude who came up with the "Cultural Hegemony" Theory.
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
3 types of hard power, and an example.
What is military power, economic power, cyber power?
The type of power demonstrated by the extremist group Boko Haram.
What is, hard power, military power, cultural power?
The effect that a state has on others.
What is measuring power as behavioural outcomes?
When states attempt to expand their power.
What is offensive realism?
Emphasis on the freedom of the individual, and the use of soft power, co-operation, and a rules based international order.
What is liberalism?
A more holistic and utilitarian approach to exerting power. Often involves trade and diplomacy.
What is smart power?
The hybrid IGO that aims to politically and economically unify the member states, and has a very wide range of responsibilities, such as the management of the open-border policy in some parts of Europe.
What is European Union (EU)?
What is measuring the distribution of power?
An actor or action being commonly considered acceptable, the basis for all forms of governance and other ways of exercising power.
What is legitimacy?
The states hard power capabilities, states are constantly competing, offensive or defensive.
What is realism?
The ability of a nation use of cooperation and alliance to achieve one's goals.
What is relational power?
This non-state group declared it had established a caliphate across Syria and Iraq, in 2014, causing the border between the two countries to become increasingly irrelevant.
What is Islamic State?
The control a state has over its territory and its ability to govern itself.
What is sovereignty?
The smaller states are protected by the larger states, through IGOs, in order to improve security. All member states pledge to protect one another from other threats.
What is collective security alliance?
Italian politician and author of The Prince, the classic realist analysis.
What is Niccolò Machiavelli?
A states influence on political ideas, and the framework of global politics itself.
What is structural power?
The agreed ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, and a programme of ongoing peace talks. Involved Ukraine, Russian Federation, and two rebel groups of Eastern Ukraine.
What is Minsk Protocol (2014)?
The founder of the structural theory, offensive realism.
What is John Mearsheimer?