International Relations - Wight, Bull & Chiaruzzi
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| For Realists, in any Balance of Power has what? | Those powers satisfied with the status quo and others that are dissatisfied |
| Approach to IR: Revolutionists | Ethical and prescriptive terms |
| Approach to IR: Rationalists | Teleological terms |
| Approach to IR: Realists | Sociological terms |
| Perception of Int. Society: Realists | States are not engaged in simple struggle, but limited in their conflicts with one another by common rules and institutions |
| What are the Three traditions? | Realist, Rationalist, Revolutionist |
| Who are the three traditions named after? | Hobbes & Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant |
| Description of International Politics for: Realists | International anarchy |
| Description of International Politics for: Rationalists | International intercourse |
| Description of International Politics for: Revolutionists | About relations among human beings within the states |
| Main element stressed: Realists | International Anarchy |
| Main element stressed: Rationalists | International intercourse |
| Main element stressed: Revolutionists | Community of mankind |
| Means to strive for peaceful international change: Realists | Role of brute force |
| Means to strive for peaceful international change: Rationalists | Priority of order over justice |
| Means to strive for peaceful international change: Revolutionists | Priority of justice over order |
| What Revolutionists think international society ought to be | A universal state |
| What is Hobbesian state of nature analogy? | Everyone anticipating/prepping for war |
| What does Balance of Power reaffirm for Revolutionists? | The authority of satiated powers |
| What is foundation of existence of world politics? | Common interest in the existence of interstate rules and institutions |
| What kind of institutions does Bull consider | Long-term Primary Institutions |
| What counts as the long-term primary institutions | Fundamental set of practices and customs for the realisation and maintenance of international order |
| "Anarchical society": What does this capture? | Fundamental Political organisation of relations among states and other political units in world politics |
| Problem with 'Individual Justice' | No genuine protection of human rights, only selective protection dependent on states objectives |
| Order is what | A generally enchanced value |
| What do demands for justice involve? | States, individuals and whole humanity |
| What are the concepts of "cosmopolitian justice"? | Revolutionary |
| Name one of the long-term primary institutions | Balance of Power |
| Only principle that is compatible with maintenance of current fundamental concept of human political organisation. | International Justice |
| What did Third World Countries look to as a key to the protection they needed from Western hegemony | Sovereignty of the State |
| What makes a State System? | Interaction between states sufficient enough to make the behaviour of each a necessary element in the calculations of the other. |
| What makes an International Society? | Group of states that are bound by a common set of rules with their relations to one another. |
| Europe and Ottoman Empire: System or Society | State System |
| Europe and the Americas: System or Society | State System |
| What can happen once an international society takes place? | Rules and Institutions could be exported to states in the system belonging to other cultures |
| What are the UN and League of Nations associated with? | Process of making rules for international conduct |
| In Bull's terms, why would the UN and League of Nations be considered eligible for International Society title? | General membership involved the activities Bull listed as grounds for International Society |
| Why is the definition of International Society problematic for the League of Nations? | 4 Superpowers were not not included at one point |
| What an International Society is conscious of. | Certain common interests and common values |
| What happens in a State System? | States are in regular contact with one another |
| There is a these that modern state-systems are the result of what? | Specifically Western or European experience |
| "Just as domestic politics influence is not government, international politics influence is not ..." | Power |
| The word Nation is interchangable with what words? | State or Power |
| How does a Power become a Great Power? | A successful war against another Great Power |
| What is a Nationality? | People with consciousness of historic identity expressed in distinct language |
| What does Nation mean in Asia & Africa? | Political unit asserting its right of independent statehood against European domination |
| What makes Power? | Size of population |
| In the case of Terrorist Groups, a state can be considered what? | Political community |
| Give an example of a terrorist group who have become a 'state'? | ISIS - Islamic State* |
| Terrorist groups 'divenire players nella scacchiera internazionale', and this allows what? | Relativi vantaggi |
| Terrorist Groups are considered what? | Non-State Actors |
| Military and Armed Forces can possibly secure what? | A states own security |
| War threatens what? | International community |
| Renunciation of war is a what? | Political tool |
| Collective security references what? | Last century between 2 World Wars |
| For Pacism, how do they reject the idea that war is inevitable? | History is not forever, resolving conflicts between individuals can change it |
| For Pacism, they reject war. Why? | Pacism rejects violence, therefore rejecting distinction between just and unjust war |
| Military somewhat goes hand-in-hand with what? | Security dilemma |
| Through the constant threat of military or 'armed power' and history, it can be considered that there is a ...? | Continuation of war |
| What can the military pose as in IR? | Decisive datum |
| Despite not being used actively, what can military or armed forces do? | Generate threat and increase supposed power |
| IR started with analysing the state of war and how it came to be. Why is this? | Every theory is used to try prevent another war and recognise it |
| What is the cause of generating war? | No World Government |
| What can you use armed forces to do? | Threaten other armed forces |
| The nature of Int. Law | Anarchic |
| International Law is the principle of what? | Non-interference in the internal affairs of states in this sense and its limited |
| What brings considerable misunderstandings to International Law? | Domestic analogy |
| International Law is not equal to ... | Concepts of Justice |
| What can be considered the Heart of International Law? | Idea that humanity is divided into states & commits a principle of order |
| Why is International Law anarchic? | Rules that Int. Court give cannot be imposed by any world government |
| How can International Law expose the Balance of Powers between states? | Shared states impose the law, some may have a greater impact/say than others |