Realism
The two founding fathers of Classical Realism and the one founding father of Neorealism.
Who are Thucydides, Hobbes, and Waltz?
This "P word" is best associated with liberalism.
What is preferences?
The Marxist view of human nature.
What is N/A? (There is one, but it is not relevant for our purposes in 2223)
A group of people sharing a history, culture, or identity.
What is a nation?
Under Marxism, states fall into one of these two categories.
What is Global North and Global South?
The primary goals of actors under realism and the primary goals of actors under neorealism.
What is power and security/survival?
The types of actors under liberalism.
What are state and non-state actors?
According to Marx, this type of economic relations defines most of IR.
What is exploitative?
The levels of analysis.
What are individual, state, dyadic, and systemic?
According to IR scholars, we live in a world of ____. According to Economists, we live in a world of ____.
What is anarchy? What is scarcity?
According to classical realists, states act like this:
What are humans?
Contrary to realists, liberals view their status in the world through this lens.
What are absolute gains?
The role of the state under Marxism.
What is the tool of the oppressor?
"Whose realm, his religion" is best associated with this concept.
What is sovereignty?
When it comes to decision making, realists assume that actors are ____, whereas liberals relax this assumption.
What is rational?
The natural consequence of neorealism.
What is the security dilemma?
Whereas realists struggle to explain this topic, liberals explain it very well.
What is cooperation?
Marx argues that the proletariat needs to remove this.
What is false consciousness?
These are the necessary components for a state.
What are territory, a population, sovereignty, and recognition?
Kenneth Waltz used this term to describe the various types of global systems we have historically seen.
What is polarity? (Unipolar, bipolar, multipolar)
The lens through which realists view and rank all the countries in the world.
What is relative power?
In order to get actors to cooperate under anarchy, Liberals propose you put this on the line.
What is an actor's reputation?
What is nothing?
This treaty provides the foundation of the modern nation-state.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)?
According to neorealism, states are never this.