Sovereignty, state, globalization and finance

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Final 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.