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KEY CONCEPT IN IR - Coggle Diagram
KEY CONCEPT IN IR
ORDER
DEFINITION: A stable pattern of relations among international actors that sustains a set of common goals or purposes.
Two conditions must be fulfilled for order to exist :
1) The actors must tacitly agree to abide by certain uniform practices that preserve the international system as a whole.
2) Armed conflict must not be so pervasive as to undermine the integrity of the system.
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SECURITY
THREATS TO SECURITY
Definition: any threat which can endanger the security of an
international actor or a status core of a society.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Definition: The ability of a country’s government to protect its citizens, economy, and other institutions.
Function: To ensure national security, governments rely on tactics, including political, economic, and military power, along with diplomacy.
COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY
Definition: an approach that goes beyond the traditional realist state-centric and military approach and includes human, economic and environmental dimensions as well as a subjective feeling of security or insecurity of individuals.
NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY
Definition: security challenges that are not considered mainstream. Among the well- known NTS are energy, food and water which are in a nexus.
Example of NTS: climate change, environmental security, economic security, pandemics, social issues
SECURITY DILEMMA
Definition: a situation in which one state increases its means of defense in order to achieve a higher degree of security, which, however, is interpreted by another state as an act of aggression and thus countered with security measures on its side, thus possibly leading to an armament spiral
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DEFINITION: Security is the condition of being safe from (usually physical) harm it, therefore consists in being free from threat, intimidation and violence
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STATE
Traditional view : State are valuable institutions that provide security, freedom, order, justice and welfare.
Alternative view : State and state system create more problems than they solve.
Five key features of the state
a) Sovereignty
b) State institutions are recognizably ‘public’, in contrast to the ‘private’ institutions of civil society
c)The state is an exercise in legitimation
d)The state is an instrument in domination
e)The state is a territorial association
DEFINITION: A political association that establishes sovereign jurisdiction within defined territorial borders and exercises authority through a set of permanent institutions.