Global Terms RV

7/29/2019 Global Terms RV

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Politics


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A struggle over who gets what,

conflict over resources.


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Regime


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Rules specifying how the politicalsystem operate. Rules of the game

ex: Constitution


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Nation


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A group of people who identify asa political community based on

common territory, culture,

language, religion and other bonds


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Soverignty


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The ability of a state to be

independent and free from thecontrol of another state.

The state has control and candefend/represent one self.

Supreme national decision making

power.


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State


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A legal and political unit that is

internationally recognized, bepolitically organized and be

populated geographic area that hassovereignty.

Apparatus of government, as

physical structure.


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Westphalia State System


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Territory, Sovereignty, Legal equality

Territory-Defined boundaries, Legal order, Taxing

Authority

Sovereignty- free choice, no superior authority

Legal Equality-Sovereign states have equal rights


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State Centric Model


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the view that world politics isdominated almost exclusively by

the state actors.


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International Relations


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relations among the worlds stategovernment and other actors.


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Globalization


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Integration of markets, politics,values and environmentally

concerns across borders.


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5 waves of Globalization

1. Humans trade and migrate

2. Capitalism influences and developments

3. Tec advancements, mass migration,

manufactured products before WW1.

4. Nationalism and protection. Militaryglobalization against nuclear threats.

5. Current period of interdependence ( 2 satesdependent on each other) and growth ofnonstate actors (not associated w/ gov)


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Global issues, norms and society


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Norms-Basic values that are

increasingly common to humansocieties

Issues-Traditional internationalrelations and worldwide politics.

Society-

different groups of people becomeone


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Periodization of history

Modern 1500-

Early Modern 1500-1750

Later modern 1750- Contemporary 1945-

??? 2000-


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Bretton Woods System

A post WW2 arrangement for

managing the world economy;


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Main components are:

World Bank (IBRD) International bank for reconstruction

and development.

International monetary fund (IMF).

International Finance Corporation (IFC)


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Government involvement should be low

Liberalization, free trade, and laissez-faire GATT- General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs

WTO- World Trade Organizations


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European Union


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Organization of European countries, formed in 1993 tooversee their economic and political integration.

It was created by the Maastricht Treaty and ratified by allmembers of the European Community (EC).

The successful EC had made its members more receptive togreater integration and provided a framework for unifiedaction by member countries in security and foreign policyand for cooperation in police and justice matters.

In pursuit of its major goal to create a common monetarysystem, the EU established the euro, the EU enlarged toinclude several central and eastern European countries inthe early 21st century.

The EU's principal institutions are the European

Community, the Council of Ministers (a forum for individualministries), the European Commission (an administrativebureaucracy), the European Parliament, the EuropeanCourt of Justice, and the European Central Bank.
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ECJ (European Court Of Justice)-Highest Court of

European Union

EP (European Parliament)- Legislative authority

ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community)

EEC (European Economic Community)

EC (European Community)

EU (European Union)


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1. ECSC 1950

2. EEC 1957

3. EC 1967

4. EU 1993

International organizations that were governed by

the same set of institutions


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Geo-Politics


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Impact that geography and demographics,

environmental factors, population, movement

of people, and resources that affect politics.

Sir Halford Mackinder wrote a paper in 1904

called "The Geographical Pivot of History."

Mackinder's paper suggested that the controlof Eastern Europe was vital to control of the

world.

He who dominates will have more advantagesand will likely dominate more area.


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Goverment


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The people who are governing thestate (Obama Admin)


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Ideology


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Asystem of values, beliefs, and

ideas


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Hegemons


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Leading country on aninternational system


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Multipolar- International system that includes

several hegemons, dominate states, or great

powers.

Bipolar-International system that includes 2

hegemons dominates states, or great powers.

Unipolar- 1 hegemon, dominant state or great

power.


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GDP-(Gross domestic Product) total market

value of all goods and services produced in a

country.

GNP(Gross National Product)- measures total

market value of all goods and services

produced by resources supplied by residents

and business of a outside country. Has

economic influence on others.


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Leadership:

Structural

Institutional

Situational


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Structural Leadership- Possession of economicresources, military power, tec, and other power

that enable a group of countries to shape theinternational system.

Institutional Leadership- Ability to determine therules principles procedures and practices that

guide the behavior of members of the globalcommunity.

Situational Leadership- Ability to seizeopportunities to build or reorient the global

system apart from the distribution of power andthe building of institutions.


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Hubris


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A term used to stress the dangersof excessive pride and arrogance.


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Lippmann Gap


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Disparity between the globalambitions of countries and their

resources to fulfill those ambitions.


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Strategies for maintaining power:

Democratic Enlargement Build Institutions to Legitimize control

Offshore Balance

1. Spread of democracy

2. Principles/Concepts of change and order

within an international system.3. Prevent one country from gaining so much

power that they would dominate others.


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Offshore Balancing Includes:

Concept of Europe- Prevents one countryfrom gaining so much power that it woulddominate others,

Containment- Prevent ambitious powers fromexpanding and destroying order and balancein the international system.

Binding- Attempts to control rising statesembedding them in alliances.

Engagement- efforts to minimize conflict withchallenges.

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