Levels of Analysis
The three levels of analysis used in this class.
What are individual, state, and system?
All the schools of thought we have discussed in this course.
What are: (neo)realism, liberalism, marxism, constructivism.
This type of warfare is characterized by guerilla fighting and hit-and-run skirmishes.
What is unconventional warfare?
These types of countries are countries within the global north.
Bonus: Which types of countries are in the global south?
Global North = "Developed" World
Bonus: Global South = "Developing" World
What is the scientific method?
This is the level of analysis used when considering the decision-makers of the state.
What is individual?
The type of economic philosophy most associated with realism.
Bonus: Explain it briefly.
What is mercantilism?
Bonus: Promoting an export-oriented economy and limiting imports.
The two mechanisms that are theorized to explain the Democratic Peace.
Bonus: What is the democratic peace?
What are liberal norms and domestic political institutions?
Bonus: Democracies do not fight one another.
The type of exchange rate system the IMF operated under until the 1970s.
Bonus: What was it based on?
What is fixed?
Bonus: The US Dollar.
The assumption that underpins all of International Relations.
What is anarchy?
The two state-level explanations for civil war onset.
What are greed and grievance?
When considering how well off an actor is, this is the type of gain that liberals consider versus realists.
What are absolute versus relative gains?
The type of self defense taken by a state when they are facing an imminent threat.
What is preemptive self defense?
The Bretton Woods conference lead to the rise of these three international economic institutions.
What are the IMF, World Bank, and GATT?
We associate this theory with a global power being able to assert their will on the system and create institutions that benefit themselves.
What is hegemonic stability theory?
The three systemic explanations for interstate war.
What are Balance of Power, Power Transition Theory, and Long Cycle Theory?
The three tenants of Immanuel Kant's perpetual peace. (Kantian Tripod)
Bonus: What school of thought does this belong under?
What are: shared domestic democratic institutions, economic interdependence, agreed upon international institutions.
Bonus: Liberalism.
This systemic-level phenomena explains the plethora of Civil Wars ever since the 90s.
What is the end of the Cold War?
This is the type of economic strategy employed by the Asian Tigers.
Bonus: Briefly explain the strategy.
What is export-oriented industrialization?
Bonus: Change your domestic economy to focus almost solely on exportable goods.
The Global North and Global South divide refers to:
What is the underdevelopment of human and economic capital of the majority of countries in the world?
Dependency Theory operates under this level of analysis.
Bonus: Briefly explain the theory.
What is the system level of analysis?
Bonus: The peripheral countries (LDCs) are dependent on the core countries (wealthy/western) for good and capital.
This school of thought focuses predominately on the state level of analysis.
What is liberalism?
These are Hugo Grotius' five principles of a Just War.
What are: 1) Just cause for war (i.e., self defense), 2) War as a last resort, 3) War is declared publicly by a legitimate authority, 4) War is proportional to the threat, 5) Wars are conducted properly on the battlefield
The purpose of the World Trade Organization.
What is: to provide an international forum for states to come together to discuss trade policies and promote free trade policy among members.
Most economists agree that this type of trade policy is the healthiest for both the system as a whole, and actors within the system.
What is free trade?