Sovereignty, state, globalization and finance
NoA4VAFinal Exam Revision Key Terms List
How to use this document:
Use this list as a summary list to revise the terms you learn in this class and refresh your knowledge on the course before the exams. Always look for relations between the key terms/phenomenon, the timelines and shifts of the different phenomenon.
Week 2
Key terms:
1. Realism
a. Classical Realism
b. Structural realism/Neo Realism
2. Liberalism
a. Neoliberalism
b. Post-Cold War liberalism
3. Anarchy
4. Prisoner’s Dilemma vs. Cooperation
5. States as Unitary Actors
6. States as Rational Actors
7. Relative Power vs. Absolute Power
Thinking Questions:
What are the assumptions that realist, liberals, constructivist (see next section) have about international relations? How does these assumptions affect the ways they think about international cooperation?
Week 3
Key terms:
Constructivism
· Meanings of Anarchy
· Alexander Wendt
· Discursive Practices
· Critiques of Constructivism - from Realist, Liberals perspectives
Marxism
· Dependency Theory (See Tutorial Slides)
· Dominant vs Dependent States
· Role of Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
· Examples?
· World Systems Theory
· Immanuel Wallerstein
· Core Vs. Periphery vs. Semi-Periphery
Gender and Feminist perspectives
a. Liberal Feminism
b. Social/Marxist Feminism
c. Radical Feminism
d. Postcolonial Feminism
What does the different Feminisms say about the international order?
Thinking Questions:
Week 4
Key terms:
Level of Analysis – System, state, individual
Systems
Realist/Liberal/Constructivist understandings of the International System
· Balance of Power
· Bipolar vs. Multipolar
· Pluralism
· Interdependence
· Anarchy (recap from Week 2/3)
Hegemony
· Hegemonic stability
· Gramscian approach
State
· Sovereignty – define
· Challenges to sovereignty
· Shifting meanings of sovereignty
· Relation between state and sovereignty and power
· Liberal democratic state
· Embedded liberalism
Individual
· Role of leaders
· Role of masses
· Public opinion
Thinking Questions:
How the different levels of analysis be used to present your arguments? How have meanings associated with sovereignty change?
Week 5 and Week 11
Key terms:
Intergovernmental Organization (IGOs) - define, give example
Non-governmental Organization (NGOs) - define, give example
IGOs/NGOS and Anarchy
Role of International Law
· Liberal Democratic states
The Liberal Paradigm
· Define Human Rights
· Shift towards the neoliberal paradigm
· Challenges to the neoliberal paradigm
· Different forms of Crisis
· Global Order – how does hierachy, power and influence look like under the global order?
· Corporate Social Responsibility
Thinking questions:
How does Realist/Liberal/Constructivists perceive NGOs/IGOs and International Law?
How does NGOs/IGOs make international cooperation possible?
Week 6 and Week 7 and Week 10
Key terms:
International Political Economy
· Define
· Timelines of International Trade – Bretton Woods, WTO, GATT
Globalizations
· Define
· Actors of globalization
· Impacts of globalization
Fordism period to Post-Fordism period
Global Trade
· Comparative Advantage – Ricardo
· Types of resources
· Bretton Woods System
· Globalising liberal economy
· Effects of a globalising liberal economy
Transnational migration – trends?
· Define migrants
Push Factors for migration
Pull Factors for migration
Week 9
Key Terms:
· World Systems Theory
· International Financial Institutions
· Relationship between poverty and development
· “Third World”
· Dependency Theory (Recap)
· Radical Dependency
· Mercantilism
· Neoliberal Structural Adjustments
Week 8
Nuclear Weapons
· Define
· The development of nuclear weapons
· Theory of non-proliferations
Terrorism
· Define
· Timelines of terrorism
· Examples
Thinking Questions
How has the nature of conflict and war change overtime? How has nuclear weapons change tensions and conflicts between states?
Final Key Notes for Exams
· Have a brief outline/pointers outline before you start typing down your answers
· Start your essay with a main thesis statement
· Use examples to support your argument
· Paragraph your answers
· Keep sentences short and neat.
· Check through your work when you are done
Breathe, and sleep early before the exams. Good Luck.