PLS 200 Study Guide - Zombie, Television Consumption, Media Consumption
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Agreement reality-things we believe are real even though we have never directly expierenced them through our five senses. Balance of power-the way in which the distribution of power across the international system influences the pattern of alliances that tend to form in an anarchical enviorment. Bandwagoning- opportunistic international alliances in which nations ally with the bully in order to carve out their own slice in the spoils. Cognitive frameworks the set of instinctual and learned filters the human mind uses sorting the mass of incoming information and selecting which bits it will recognize and pass on to the thinking part of the brain. Constructivism-a theoretical perspective on international relations that holds as its fundamental claim that human beings construct that reality around them-the reality upon which decisions and choices are made- through language and communication. Democratic peace-the observation that liberal democratic political regimes do not fight one another.
