Conflict and Democracy Studies CDSn4001: Conflict Analysis Fall 2023
CONCEPTS FOR FINAL EXAM STUDY
• Conflict
• Structural conflict vs actor conflict
• Rationality
• “isms”
• Five faces of oppression
• Rationalism/rational choice theory
• Classical realism
• Structural realism/neorealism
• Constructivism
• Positive vs negative peace
• Structural violence
• International anarchy
• Hegemon
• Balance of power theory
• Defensive vs offensive realism
• Hegemonic stability theory
• Levels of analysis
• Status quo vs revisionist states
• Security dilemma
• Bounded rationality
• Cognitive bias
• Democratic peace theory
• Primordialism vs modernism
• Civil war
• Greed vs grievance
• Ethnic conflict
• 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
• Guerilla warfare
• Insurgency
• Peacebuilding
• Peacekeeping
• Peace enforcement
• Peace settlement
• Peacemaking
• Partition
• Credible-commitment theory
• Stalemate
• Frames