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terrorism |
1) use or threat of violence 2) political 3) civilians are targeted |
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secular government |
non-religious government, does not follow any rules of religion |
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R2P |
responsibility to protect |
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saverty |
ability for a state to govern itself |
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unipolar world |
one superpower (at this moment the United States) |
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bipolar world |
two superpowers (till 1945 the United States and Russia) |
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confirmation bias |
reject the evidence that is against previous beliefs |
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state |
has land, government, and population |
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nation |
people of the same ethnicity, language, culture |
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nation-state |
a state built upon the nation (Israel built upon the beliefs of the religion) |
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world politics |
the study of how different actors try to achieve and defend their ideas, and how it affects the world |
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schematic reasoning |
when we know some informations about a thing/person and we shape our expectations for everything to be the same or better |
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cognitive dissonance |
I'm on welfare, but the government does not help me (can't see the truth behind his beliefs) |
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mirror images |
states see each other similarly (Russia thinks the same things about the USA that USA thinks about Russia) |
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enduring rivalries |
long competition because of neutral hatred = fighting over long time periods = hard to solve because both sides see the issue in a different light |
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actor |
a state, group, organization that plays a role in world politics |
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power |
the factors that can make one actor change another actors preferences |
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state sovereignty |
states supreme authority to manage any international affairs and foreign policies |
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IGO's = Intergovernmental Organizations |
institutions run by the state that have the power to manage problems of the global agenda |
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NGO's = Nongovernmental Organizations |
private institutions that want to push their own agenda, they can bring change into the world and influence international decision making (ex. World Wildlife Foundation) |
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levels of analysis |
global influences - UN, NATO, EU state influences - USA, Russia, Germany individual - Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin |
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state level of analysis |
how much power does the state have? (ex. nobody is worried that Latvia will take over the world, they have no power!) |
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global level of analysis |
rich states decide the choices of poor states, they have the global power |
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ISIS |
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria |
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ISIL |
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
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daesh |
"being stamped on", terrorist hate being called this name so politicians do it |
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perception is greater than... |
reality |
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transformation |
a huge change in political systems (page 16) |
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global systems |
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anarchy |
there is no government (ex. the global anarchy has no government because there is no government of the World) |
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great powers |
the most powerful countries (military and economically) in the global system |
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cycles |
like deja vu feels like has happened in the past, but actually is a completely new situation |
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regional powers (hejeman) |
Europe = Germany; South America = Brazil, etc. |
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P5 = United Nations = UN |
United States Russia France China United Kingdom the permanent members of the UN, only they have veto power. they all have nukes |
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P5 + 1 |
UN permanent members + 1 (right now Germany (does not have nukes) because of their economy) |
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sanctions |
never really work, are made to make the other side suffer. (ex not buying stuff from Iran so their economy goes down) |
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have nukes but are not in the UN |
Pakistan India North Korea (DPRK) Israel South Sudan (not a concern because of their low economics) |
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
Pakistan, India, North Korea (DPRK), Israel and South Sudan cannot spread their nukes at the time of signing the treaty: 1. if you have nukes, keep them but can;t give them to others 2. if you don't have nukes, can;t get them 3. states have the right for nukes for peaceful purposes (ex. medicine) |
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Kantian Democratic Peace Treaty = Golden Asher |
1. two states with similar situations do not go to war with each other - they are economically interdependent - we have Chinas stuff, they have our debt |
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3 branches of the Government |
1. Executive Branch 2. Legislative (Senate, House of Representatives) 3. Judicial (Supreme Court) |
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Supreme Court Members |
Left Side - Kagam, Ginsbers, Breyer, Sotomeyor Right Side - Scalia, Roberts (Chief), Alito, Thomas Middle - Kenedy |
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where does the US get their oil from? |
Canada, Mexico and the US |
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the rule of economics |
supply and demand |
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Kellog Brian Act 1928 |
outlawed war as a method for settling interstate conflicts
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theory |
not a fact, an idea of how the world works |
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hypothesis |
a test of the theory |
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neoconservative |
political movement that stands for taking the US military power and helping other countries gain freedom and democracy |
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realism!!! (there is a table on -isms in the book) |
1. self-interest; stats fight for power and anarchy 2. there is no world government, everyone is for themselves |
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national interest |
a state tries to gain something selfishly, but in order to do good for their country |
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relative gains |
some cooperative participants gain more than others |
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security dilemma |
tendency for states to see other states defensive arming as threatening |
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balance of power |
peace can only happen if military is distributed to prevent a single superpower controlling the world |
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Iran vs Saudi Arabia |
1) Iran = people like us, government does not 2) SA = people hate us, government does no |
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Taliban in Afganistan |
the government in Afganistan |
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Taliban in Pakistan |
terrorists (but not international terrorists) |
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universal jurisdiction |
a political leader that has been accused of something and proven guilty can be arrested anywhere in the world, any time (for crimes against humanity) |
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liberalism |
loves the UN does not care about the states wants, more about the individual and international interests |
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neoconservatism |
spreading of democracy by using violence if necessary (they make people believe in democracy) |
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femenism |
fights for equal gender rights |
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constructivism |
made up! example - International Relations are made up! there is nobody governing what happens internationally, so the laws are technically not real. |
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consicutionism |
evaluating actions based on consequences ex. should we have free education? yes or no DEPENDING on the consequences. changing the rules of the world. ex. if everybody in the world woke up today and decided that the US does not exist, it would not exist. |
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diplomacy |
communication and negotiation between two or more states that seek a good solution for both without using violence |
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zero-sum |
what is gained by A is going to be lost by B, so there is a looser |
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collective security |
a peace agreement between states, but if one state breaks it, all states will attack (ex. if Russia breaks peace with Latvia, all NATO states will attack Russia) |
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norms |
generalized standarts of behavior |
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capitalism |
1. your assets is not taken away to distribute evenly to others 2. divides people into classes 3. the poor stay poor, the rich stay rich 4. competition is the key goal on changing your class 5. the amount of your financial gain is seen as your success |
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socialism |
1. the state collectively owns everything 2. the state distributes it's assets evenly between everyone 3. eliminating classes and giving everyone the same chance 4."free" education, welfare |
