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20 Cards in this Set
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Preponderant influence or dominance of one nation over others
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hegemony
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What international aggreement in 1648 is generally credited as marking the beginning of the modern state system and the present system of internatinal politic?
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Peace of West Phalia
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Considered to be the enabling concept of worl politics, whereby nation states possess authority not only within their territorial entities but possess membershio in the international communitry?
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sovereignty
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The event was the symbolic end of the Cold War
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the fall of the Berlin Wall
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The metting in 1815 ____ re- assered the principles of state sovereignty and advanced this important concept in international relations _____.
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Congress of Vienna
Balance of power |
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The ____ is broadly assumed to be the central actor in international affairs.
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nation state
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The international system is based on the sovereignty of about this number of current independent territorial states
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200
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A coalition of states that coordinate actions to accomplish some end or goal
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alliance
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What does NGO stand for? Two examples?
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Non government organization
red cross, amnesty international |
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What does IGO stand for? Two examples?
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International Government Organization
World trade system, United Nations |
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Name three prominent figures associated with the concept of realism?
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Morganthau
Nixon Machiavelli |
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The Cold War was a time of what type of power relationship in the international system?
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bipolar
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What does BRIC refer to?
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Brazil, Russia, India, and China
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Those elements constituting a nations most vital needs and objectives, including such factors as self- preservation, independence, sovereignty, secutrity, territorial intergrity, and economic well being.
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National interest
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The use of geography as an element of power is called?
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geopolitics
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According to the text, what six states besides the US are great powers?
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Germany, Japan, China, Russia, Britian, and France
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NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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OPEC?
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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Two important figures associated with the concept/ theory of idealism?
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Ghandi, Woodrow Wilson
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This political entity is sometimes refferred to as a country and once held a UN seat even though it is not formally recognized as a nation state.
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Taiwan
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