International
Relations test
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positivism - answer an approach to
knowledge based on the scientific method
and the observation and analysis of empirical
data
rational choice theory - answer an approach
to social science, borrowed from economics,
that assumes individuals are rational actors
who make decisions intended to maximize
their interests on the basis of cost-benefit
calculations
,paradigm - answer a conceptual or
theoretical perspective or framework
commonly accepted within a scholarly
discipline that helps to inform and guide
thinking and research
ideal type - answer a concept that provides
an exaggerated and oversimplified version of
reality as a way to promote analytical clarity
and conceptual comparison
realism - answer dominant post-WWII era
paradigm; based on the assumption that
international relations is a struggled for
power among sovereign states
human nature realists - answer scholars who
see the struggled for power that
characterizes international relations as
rooted in the essential character of human
nature
structural realists - answer scholars who see
the struggle for power that characterizes
international relations as rooted in the
, structure of the international system,
especially the condition of anarchy
anarchy - answer the absence of an effective
world government capable of enforcing rules
and norms of behavior
state of nature - answer situation of anarchy
in which there is no government. Thomas
Hobbes posited that humans once existed in
a state of nature but elected to create
governments, and thereby surrender some
personal liberty, in exchange for order and
security
sovereignty - answer condition of supreme,
independent political authority answerable to
no higher authority. In international relations
theory, and especially among realists, states
are often regarded as sovereign
self-help - answer state efforts to protect
their interests through the accumulation of
military power or the forging of alliances
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