International Relations Theories and Organizations: Realism, Liberalism, Marxism, and UN

Realism: autonomy/can't trust anyone .. theory regarding power and security... Human nature: competitive.. balance of power: dividing up power of roughly equal shares

Polarity: Unipolarity- somewhat unstable... single state's dominance... Bipolarity- most stable..big wars too costly

Multipolarity: least stable system..great powers are most likely in this system

Liberalism: Wilson's Fourteen Points- economic transparency and trade-militaries for defensive purposes- international orgs to promote security- end to colonialism..........HUMAN INTEREST AND POWER- finding interest and achieving using combined power//harmony is aligned cooperation is when they find a middle ground

Marxism: Bourgeoisie- owners of business Proletariat- workers seeking survival... Power is based on economics and class structure..Stratification- disproportionate access to resource, wealth, and power... Opposite of capitalism

Levels of analysis: System- tries to explain what about a system makes something happen, Dyad- considers state pairs to understand international relations, state, individual decision making- individuals who can affect international interactions

Tangible sources of power: non-natural/infrastructure, wealth, military

Intangible sources of power: not natural/ culture, leadership, patriotism

What makes a state?: territory, population, govt, diplomatic recognition

Sovereignty: Westphalian: states have territorial boundaries and should be free from incursion by other states/ Domestic: the organization, source, and actions of authority within a state/ International legal: a recognition of one state and its equal legal states/ interdependence: freedom of the states from the outside forces of change

Rational model- model of decision making/ problems can be expected and accepted/ predicts we will make the best choices for ourselves with the info we have

IOs: search for order/reduce impact of anarchy/ create a system of norms and rules ......

types of IOs: IO: established by states and only states are members/ NGOs

UN: successor to League of Nations.. US UK FRANCE and CHINA

Goals of UN: prevent war and enhance security, human rights, international law, social and economic progress

Five major assembly: GA, Economic and Social Council, Security Council, Secretariat, international court of justice

GA: UN organ/ all members can address the GA and 2/3 majority is always needed

ECOSOC: 54 member states/ Focus: econ and social dev, poverty reduction, gender violence, children's rights

UN secretariat: Carries out directive of GA and SC

Court of justice: 15 judges 9 year term

Customary laws: norms of behavior observed over time by many states/ meant to be universally applicable (not written down)

TREATY LAWS: law created between states

Universal jurisdiction: Tribunals: deal with a single issue/ extraterritorial jurisdiction: crimes Against their nationals/ crime by their nationals/crimes against humanity/war crimes/ genocide

Normative: ethical action

Intuitive: distinguishes between measurement error, and bias

Empirical: result of repeated observations