Anarchy, Sovereignty, and International Actors
No outside power may legitimately interfere in the internal affairs of another state
What is sovereignty?
States
Politicians
International Organizations
Nongovernmental Organizations
Multinational Corporations
Who are important actors in the international system?
Two major theories of international relations.
What are realism and liberalism?
War between two or more states
What is interstate war?
This keeps states from going to war with each other frequently.
What is a balance of power?
A political and legal entity with a recognized border, its own population, a central government and is recognized by others.
The process in which actors try to
influence the behavior of other actors
through negotiating and bargaining
What is diplomacy?
Emphasizes self-help and inability to trust other states. The international system promotes a struggle for power by states because you can’t trust other states.
What is realism?
Conflicts involving groups of people united by common beliefs, aims, or territory that fight to establish an independent country.
What is war of secession?
•Territory
•National policy
•Regime type
•Ethnic and religious divisions
What do states fight over according to the bargaining theory of war?
People united by common characteristics such as ethnicity, language, and geography.
What is a nation?
A state threatens punishment to try to get
another to do something.
What is compellence?
Emphasizes the ability to cooperate and ability to overcome the prisoner’s dilemma. Multiple international actors seek to achieve multiple goals in the international system. Goals are often achieved through cooperation.
What is liberalism?
In 2011, anti-government protesters in Libya overthrew the country’s longtime dictator, Muammar al-Qaddafi.This is an example of what type of intrastate war?
What is a war of succession?
Building military capabilities
Building economic capacity
Acquire territory and resources
What is internal balancing?
Military intervention
Economic coercion
Cyberattacks
Electoral interference
Separatism
What are violations of state sovereignty?
It looks like Iran is thinking about invading
Iraq. The US warns Iran that if it invades
Iraq they will jointly attack with Iraq.
What is deterrence?
Repeated communications
Increase the cost of defection
Change the goals of the players
What are ways to overcome the prisoner's dilemma?
Some argue that successful protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya during the Arab Spring inspires Syrian citizens to protest their authoritarian government and led to a civil war. This explanation for the start of the war is from the perspective of this level of analysis.
What is the international level of analysis?
Cuba decides to align itself with the USSR during the Cold War.
What is bandwagoning?
A northern region in Spain where a significant percentage of the population would like to secede from the country.
What is Catalonia?
The foreign policy tool/s used to keep Russia from placing missiles in Cuba.
What are diplomacy and armed forces?
The arms race at the beginning of the hunger games is an example of this concept.
What are relative gains?
Actions taken by a state to increase national defense
can lead other states to take similar measures.
What is a security dilemma?
The cause of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 according to bargaining theory of war.
What is incomplete information?