Conflict and Democracy Studies CDSn4001: Conflict Analysis Fall 2020
CONCEPTS FOR FINAL EXAM STUDY
• Conflict
• Violence
• Incompatibility of goals
• Payoff matrices
• Structural conflict vs actor conflict
• Conflict behavior vs conflict action
• Rationality
• Rationalism/rational choice theory
• Classical realism
• Structural realism/neorealism
• Constructivism
• Peace
• Coercive vs noncoercive conflict
action
• Conflict escalation
• Conflict de-escalation
• International anarchy
• Hegemon
• Balance of power theory
• Defensive vs offensive realism
• Hegemonic stability theory
• Polarity (in international politics)
• Levels of analysis
• Status quo vs revisionist states
• Security dilemma
• Preventive vs preemptive war
• Bounded rationality
• Cognitive bias
• Democratic peace theory
• Static vs dynamic identity approach
• Primordialism vs modernism
• Civil war
• Grievance
• Greed vs grievance
• Ethnic conflict
• Ethnicity
• Myth-symbol complex
• Militarism
• Nationalism
• Offense-defense balance
• Asymmetric conflict
• Role of technology in conflict
• Role of geography in conflict
• Elite-predation model
• Economic endowments
• Social endowments
• Activist vs opportunistic rebellion
• Information starvation
• COIN warfare
• Guerilla warfare
• Insurgency
• Peacebuilding
• Peacekeeping
• Peace enforcement
• Peace settlement
• Credible-commitment theory
• Stalemate