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8 Cards in this Set
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Axis of evil
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phrase deliberately used by Bush in 2001 to characterize Iran, N. Korea and Iraq.
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Rosecrance
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hypothesized about America’s position as a hegemonic power: over the US’s global position would erode from a superpower to an “ordinary country”.
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Market Stalinism
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ironic coupling of two words used by critics to describe system in China which combines an authoritarian political order with a highly dynamic capitalism.
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Virtual state
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invests in services and people rather than amassing expensive production capacity, and contracts out other functions to states that specialize in them; demands of advanced democracies have to submit to the demands of the international marketplace - Rosecrance
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Third World
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a notion that was first used in the late 1950s to define both the underdeveloped world and the political and economic project that would help overcome underdevelopment.
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Transition
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the lengthy period between the end of communism planning in the Soviet bloc and the final emergence of a fully functioning democratic capitalist system.
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Unipolarity
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theoretical notion that the US has now become & is likely to remain the only major world power.
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War on terror
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an extensive & global struggle to combat & finally defeat international terrorism.
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