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War
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Range of violent actions, from all-out full-scale clashes of armies to smaller-scale incidents of terrorism.
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Peace
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Situations ranging from an uneasy and tense absence of war to a permanent peace wherein the participants consider the use of force unimaginable.
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Sovereignty
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States accept no political authority as superseding their own.
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International Anarchy
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The absence of a supranational political authority in international relations. This condition applies to the international system of sovereign states.
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Diplomatic Immunity
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Agreement between states ensuring the physical safety of their ambassadors and other reps. Ensures diplomats safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws, although they can be expelled.
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1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran
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incident in which the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded and personnel held hostage for over a year.
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Power
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Ability of entities to cause others to do what those entities wish them to do
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Political Power
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Persuasion
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Economic Power
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Economic inducements such as foreign aid and embargos etc.
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Military Power
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Physical force, including at the potential use of violence, and quite often the actual use of violence.
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Small Powers
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States which can make decisions affecting there own affairs, but little influence elsewhere, The Slovak Republic is an example.
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Regional Powers
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States who can have a direct effect on their neighbors, and thus in their region of the world. India is an example
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Great Powers
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States with some world-wide clout. Germany, Japan and France are examples.
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Superpower
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State whose political, economic and military effectiveness can be exercised around the world and sustained for some time. Current world superpower, and some claim the only example, is the US
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TNC
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Transnational corporation. Corporations which operate internationally. BP is example.
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NGO
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Nongovernmental organization. Private groups formed to take action in response to a specified global issue, such as threats to the natural environment or human rights. Amnesty International is an example.
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IGO
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International governmental organization. Agencies which deal with global or regional interests. Their members are states. The U.N. Security Council is an ex.
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Collective Security
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Security Council-authorized military action (intervention) against an aggressor state, w/o that state's consent, in order to deter war. Korean and the first gulf war.
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Humanitarian intervention
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Threats to peace are managed by deploying peacekeeping troops and delivering food and medical aid. Often employes by the U.N. Security Council.
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Show of Force
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Movement of a State's military forces into conflict situation as an implied threat.
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Conventional War
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A form of war in which states battle each other using their formally organized military forces.
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Guerilla War
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Organized groups opposing a political system use hit-and-run tactics, and then blend into the local population as their main defence. Some examples are many of the forms of war used by communist forces during the Viet Nam War.
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Terrorism
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Violent incidents perpetuated by small numbers of people for the purpose of calling into question or destabilizing an existing political system. The attacks on various targets in the U.S.A. on September 11, 2001 are examples.
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Balance of Power
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An interaction system of states or other groups which choose not to use force because they consider the potential cost too high. The relationship between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War is an example.
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Economic sanctions
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Actions designed to encourage states to change their policies by cutting off trade and financial flows.
The U.S. trade embargo against Cuba is one example of the use of economic sanctions. |
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Diplomacy
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Direct Negotiations between 2 or more govts or IGOs
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Negotiations
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Officials talk to each other directly or through a designated intermediary
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Tacit Negotiations
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One government’s sending messages to another government or to other governments without telling it or them directly or using an intermediary.
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Politics
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The process of bargaining and negotiating in making international as well as domestic decisions
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Interests
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The relationships and the resources the entities are abe to use for their own benefit and to enhance their own power.
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Perceptions
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Attitudes and points of view resulting from a person's particular cultural-historical, philosophical, ideological, or religious preconceptions.
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Perceptual Selectivity
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Process of ignoring or misinterpreting information because of prior assumptions.
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Revisionist States
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States which want more power and which generally adopt a policy of increasing their military forces in am attempt to obtain that additional Power. Iran & North Korea
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Status Quo States
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States Satisfied with their existing level of power. Modern Germany
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International Rule of Law
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Situation in which states follow commonly accepted rules of behavior and orderly processes for peacefully working out conflicting interests.
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European Union
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EU. The regional IGO furthest along in a process of functional integration.
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World Court
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An international tribunal with jurisdiction only in cases involving states.
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Just war
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A military action, taken in self-defense, abiding by accepted rules of warfare
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Human rights
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Individual rights which all people posess
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Genocide
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An attempt to exterminate members of a specific cultural group.
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Universal declaration of Human Rights
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document adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 listing individual freedoms all humans should be granted
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