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Power Politics
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- 1What are the 3 level analysis of political actors in the realist approach?Human Nature
Statism
Anarchy (international system) - 2In Human Nature level analysis, what is international politics based on?A struggle for power.
- 3What is the driving force behind al beahviour of international relations?Selfishness, egoism and rationality.
- 4What does statism level analyzes?The political actors or agents.
- 5What is the most important actor in World Politics? Why?States, because there is no higher central authority above the states.
- 6What is meant by territorial state?It’s the one that pursues its national interest in terms of power, the political unit is the main actor.
- 7How does state behave according to rationalists?They behave the same way, the all want to maximize their self-interests.
- 8What is the prominent national interest of a state?Security.
- 9What are the 2 political issues in Statism? Define themHigh politics and low politics. High politics means military power, which is considered to be the most important. Low politics basically cover everything that is secondary of importance, so it covers economy, environment, human rights.
- 10What are the 3 “S”? Define themStatism, Security and Self-Help. Statism refers to state as the main actor, Security as the most important interest of a stateand Self-Help refers to the fact that there is no authority that can enforce any type of law upon the state.
- 11What is the third level analysis?Anarchy.
- 12Define AnarchyAnarchy means that there is no overarching authority which, can enforce any kind of international law. No supreme or global authority that can control the political agents.
- 13What is a consequence of Anarchy?Since there is no global authority, states have an insecurity when protecting themselves from aggressors. This creates a self-help environment, where states must provide for their own security either by themselves or through alliances with other states.
- 14What does it mean that the anarchical system is by nature conflictual?In the international system there is something known as “state of war” where each state is a possible enemy and states alliance strategies become temporal, this makes that the possibility of war continues.
- 15What is the security dilemma?When a state takes measures in security matters, this makes other states feel insecure and take measures as well.
- 16What is the most effective way to maintain peace in the international system?Through the balance of power.
- 17How can states pursue the policy of balance of power?In 2 ways:
By increasing their own power. (engaging in an armament trace, acquiring territory)
By forming alliances, adding to their own power, the power of other states. - 18What does it mean that there is no progressive change in the world?It means that history repeats itself, because actors are driven by their own interest and their driving force is power. The only thing that has changed is the name of the actors.
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