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Theory is Everywhere
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The view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest and that the central dynamic of the global system is a struggle for power among states as each tries to preserve or improve its military security and economic welfare.
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A contest in which gains by one player can only be achieved by equal losses for other players.
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A term nearly synonymous with colonialism, recalling the empire building of the European powers in the 19th century. The empires were built by conquering and subjugating Southern countries.
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A contest in which gains by one or more players can be achieved without being offset by losses for other players.
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The system of gender-based hierarchy in society that assigns most power to men, uses male(ness) as the norm, and places higher value to masculine traits.
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The view that global politics is an economic society brought about by the spread of capitalism and characterized by a hierarchy of countries and regions based on a gap in economic circumstance.
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The idea that people in general aim to maximize their utility and profit from action taken rather than acting against their self-interest.
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The broad and deep dependence of issues and actors in the contemporary global political system that many scholars believe is a by-product of globalization.
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Countries in the Global South that are exploited by the countries in the Global North (center/core) for their cheap labor, natural resources, or as dumping grounds for pollution or surplus production.
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Quotas are used to create balanced (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, region, etc.) representation within legislative bodies of national governments and can be mandated by the constitution or electoral laws.
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Those countries that do not occupy a commanding position in the global economy but that serve an important function or fill an important niche in the global system, supporting the primacy of the center/core countries.
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A branch of realist thought that attributes the self-interested struggle for power among countries to the anarchic nature of the global system.