Material from the WPR isn't covered, right?
_______ realism argues that states seek just enough security to maintain the status quo.
Defensive realism.
Waltz argues that individuals explain state behavior according to this image.
1st image.
Allison presents these three conceptual models for state behavior.
Rational policy model, organizational process model, bureaucratic politics model.
Spruyt presents these three theoretical explanations for the emergence of the state.
War as the catalyst; economics as the catalyst; institutions as a catalyst
This term describes the idea that when one state increases its security (through power in a realist world), it decreases the security of other states.
The security dilemma
power, security
What are 2 of the types of leaders that increase the probability of conflict?
Risk tolerant leaders, delusional leaders, leaders with grandiose visions, unpredictable leaders
According to this conceptual model, governments are a constellation of loosely allied organizations that are self-interested and limited by SOPs.
Organizational Process Model
This type of war is to stop a rising power before it becomes too strong (aka, Voldemort and Harry Potter)
These two characteristics determine the intensity of the security dilemma.
offense-defense balance and offense-defense distinguishability.
Neoliberal institutionalism argues institutions reduce the probability of conflict through these mechanisms.
Reduce uncertainty, reduce transaction costs, facilitate reciprocity
This is one of the two structural elements that made the Cold War stable and "cold"
Bipolarity
Independence, not EIT
These two conceptual models are alternatives to the rational policy model and explain why governments sometimes take actions that may lead to suboptimal foreign policy solutions.
Organizational Process Model, Bureaucratic Politics Model
These are three schools of thought that Joseph Nye presents on how morality can play a role in IR.
Skeptics, state moralists, and cosmopolitans.
A doubly dangerous world is one in which there is an _______ advantage and distinguishability is _______.
offensive; low
According to liberal economic interdependence theory, high trade between the United States and China should ________ the probability of war between the two countries.
decrease
This term describes the cognitive bias that individuals are not intuitive probability thinkers and do not accurately and adequately use probability to predict and understand the world
Poor estimators
Value maximizing, according to a ranked list of preferences, are exhibits of what type of behavior
Rationality
This type of war is a response to a imminent attack
Preemptive War
A state may have these three responses to a power shift working against it.
Internal balancing
External balancing
Bandwagoning
These four components constitute threat in balance of threat theory according to Walt.
aggregate power, proximate power, offensive power, offensive intentions
This behavioral element of the Cold War is related to reducing uncertainty of capabilities / liberalism
Reconnaissance Revolution
This is one of the assumptions of the bargaining model of war
War is costly
States would prefer to negotiate to fight
Bargaining covers all three phases of war: before, during, and after
This concept according to Posen increases the intensity of warfare because of its ability to mobilize and motivate mass armies
Nationalism
This concept identified by Schelling is the power to hurt, the threat of damage that can make someone yield or comply.
Coercion