INR 2001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Execution Unit, Neoliberalism, Geopolitics

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Nolan

Document Summary

A condition in which the unite in the global system are subjected to few, if any, overarching institutions to regulate their conduct. According to the constructionist worldview, anarchy is what we make of it. The theory that peace and stability are most likely to be maintained when limitary power is distributed to prevent a single superpower hegemon or bloc from controlling the world. Facilitated by shifts in alliances that counter another states growing power or expansionist behavior. The shift in the balance of power lead to world war 1 on a global level of analysis. A condition in which power is concentrated in two competing centers so that the rest of the states define their allegiances in terms of their relationships with both rival great super-states. Ww2 caused a shift from multipolarity to bipolarity (russia and usa) End of cold war caused a shift from bipolarity to unipolarity.