Mearsheimer - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is power? - Answer- The ability to affect change What important global politics term did Joseph Nye coin? - Answer- Soft Power What is soft power? - Answer- The ability to make others want what you want According to the constitutive theory of statehood, in order to become a state, they must... - Answer- be recognized by other states Structural realists argue that natural self-interest is created by what? - Answer- the anarchic nature of the world system Who are the P5? - Answ...

State - Answer- Must have a population, governing body, territory and recognition by other states Nation - Answer- A large body of people united by common descent, history or culture and language inhabiting a particular terrirtory Nation State - Answer- A State that most citizens share or are united by common descent, history, culture or language Constitution - Answer- a body of fundamental principles according to which a state is acknowledged to be governed Power - Answer- A figure ...

Pols 121 Final exam questions and answers correct and verified 100%Pols 121 Final exam questions and answers correct and verified 100%Pols 121 Final exam questions and answers correct and verified 100% What does Brzezinski, in the PBS Newshour (2011) video "Brzezinski: The U.S. Should Work With..." predict for the future relationship between the U.S. and China? - correct answers-the two countries are unlikely to experience a direct confrontation because of their interdependence Accor...

cultural hegemony - Answer- The domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society - its beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores - that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm and the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that...

Includes: Germany as a revisionist power, Mearsheimer, WW2, Bipolar World, Cold War, Arms Race...

This is a critical review of the article “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault. The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin” By John J. Mearsheimer. Inter alia, it is argued John Mearsheimer has been observing the world from his ‘realpolitik box’ for a very long time now. He reads international politics only in terms of power, numbers of great powers, and their strategies to get more power. After all, he is the author of a world known offensive realism approach, aimed at explan...

State - ANSWERMust have a population, governing body, territory and recognition by other states Nation - ANSWERA large body of people united by common descent, history or culture and language inhabiting a particular terrirtory Nation State - ANSWERA State that most citizens share or are united by common descent, history, culture or language Constitution - ANSWERa body of fundamental principles according to which a state is acknowledged to be governed Power - ANSWERA figure or a thing...

Midterm and Final exam summary documents for Core Module International Relations Year 2 Semester 2 Political Science at the University of Amsterdam - All readings, reading summaries, Lecture notes, etc.

Class notes from all lectures including information on slides and professor's comments. Includes notes on all assigned readings.

Detailed notes on the theories of Global Politics that helped land me an A*