Week 12

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Across
  1. 2. According to Wendt, both he and John Mearshimer agree that the logic behind explanations for why states engage in war or peace has two elements: structure and ___.
  2. 3. One article assigned this week argued that the defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides’s ____.
  3. 7. ___ theorists tend to focus on the impact of ideas. They regard interests and identities of states as malleable products of specific historical processes.
  4. 9. BONUS QUESTION According to Wendt (the second reading), social structures have three elements: ____ knowledge, material resources, and practices.
  5. 10. ___ was the dominant theoretical tradition between the 1940s and the late 1980s. It depicts international affairs as a struggle for power among self-interested states.
Down
  1. 1. One of the strains of contemporary liberal theory suggests that ____ (plural) are important. Although nothing can compel states to cooperate, such ___ can facilitate cooperation between states when it is in their interests to do so.
  2. 4. Democratic ___ theory, liberal scholars argue, explains why democracies rarely fight each other, in part because of norms of compromise.
  3. 5. Alexander Wendt (the second reading) argues that what makes the two theories he discusses really different is that his theory think structures are made of ____ relationships.
  4. 6. The international system is said to have no sovereign government to manage it. This condition of ___ forces states to worry about both relative and absolute gains sought by other states.
  5. 8. Steven Walt (the first reading) argued that, regarding ideas about international affairs, everyone uses t___ [include the initial ‘t’ – the word is plural] whether she knows it or not, and that disagreements about policy usually rest on more fundamental disagreements about the basic forces that shape international outcomes.
  6. 11. According to Walt (the first reading), the main alternative to mainstream theories was ___ism (leave off the ism), which later spawned dependency theory.