Realism

1. Thinker that established the different types of balance of power: unpolar, bipolar, multipolar.
4. No hierarchically superior, coercive authority.
6. Thinker that placed that the international system is anarchic.
7. Also called structural realism,focuses its studies in the analysis of the structure of the international system.
9. Thinker that established the dynamism in realism-history = cycles of dominant powers.
10. Sum zero game, where a gain in security for one state means a loss for another.
11. balancing Gaining power by building up its own military resources.
12. Type of realists that say that war is an inevitable result to balancing
13. A process explained by offensive realists as joining an unlikely ally to avoid war with it.
14. According to realists, this is the states' main focus.

2. For this thinker, the state is the principal actor, it is unitary, rational and focused on protecting themselves.
3. balancing Gaining power by allying with other states.
5. Focuses mostly on the state and the international system.
8. How much more one state gains over another.