| What is a State? | A legal and political entity that has a government, population, territory, legitimacy, and sovereignty. |
| What is an International Organization? | A body set up to promote cooperation between or among states based on the principles of voluntary cooperation, communal management and shared interests. |
| What is a Nation? | A cultural entity and community whose members identify with each other based on shared language, history, culture, territory and symbols. |
| What is Nationalism? | A belief in the value of preserving the identity of a nation and promoting its interests. |
| What is Regional Integration? | The promotion of cooperation and collective action among a group of states with the pooling of resources and the creation of opportunities. |
| What is Communal Management in the context of International Organizations? | International organizations organize themselves and make decisions based on the shared views of their members. |
| What are the 4 qualities/principals of an International Organization according Chapter 1? | Voluntary cooperation, communal management, shared interests and minimal autonomy. |
| What are the 4 Freedoms of the Single Market? | Goods, services, people and capital. |
| What is Functionalism? | A theory describes that if states create functionally specific institutions, regional integration will develop and peace can be achieved through a web of interstate ties without the need for an intergovernmental agreement. |
| What is the Functional Spillover Effect? | If you start to integrate on one level of policy area, it results in pressure that extends authority to other policy areas. It's like an invisible hand mechanism. |
| Give an example of a Functional Spillover. | The pooling of coal and steel policies which result in pressure to extend authority to other policy areas. |
| What is Neo-functionalism? | A theory of European integration, which suggests that multiple actors play a role in the integration process, which is driven by a process of spillover. |
| What is Integrative Potential? | A measure of the extent to which states will be able to integrate successfully, based on a combination of economic and political factors. |
| What is Intergovernmentalism? | This theory sees the EU as a meeting place in which representatives from member states negotiate with each other in an attempt to achieve a consensus, but pursue state interest while paying less attention to the broader interests of the community of states. |
| What are 4 Aspects of Intergovernmentalism? | The state is central and is self-centred, governments have interests and engage in power games and provoke and trigger conflicts |
| What is Supranationalism? | A theory and model based on the idea that IGO's become the forum for the promotion of joint interests of states involved in cooperation and that there is a transfer of authority. |
| What is Liberal Intergovernmentalism? | A theory of European Integration combining elements of neo-functionalism and intergovernmentalism argues that it is beneficial for states of Europe to integrate because of self-interest and this results in European integration. |
| What is Realism? | A theory that argues that we live in a global system and that international relations are driven by a struggle for power among self-interested states. |
