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29 Cards in this Set
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agency
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the advantage of the most powerful, priveledged actors, seen by some as biases created by existing glabol institutions and norms.
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ethics
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criteria for evaluating right and wrong behavior and motives by individuals and groups
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morality
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principles about the norms for behavior that should govern actors' interactions
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civil society
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a community compossed of citizens that create institutions to protect civil liberties and that use peaceful methods for conflict resolutions
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human rights
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the political rights and civil liberties recognized by the international community as inalenable and valid for indivudals in al countries by virtue of their humanity
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sanction
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punitive action (short of military force) by one global actor against another to retaliate for its previous objectional behavior
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Global South
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-lots live on less than $2 a day
-life expt. 60yrs -infant mortality high -no safe water -no meaningful work -most of pop under 15 |
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HDI
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Human Development index
-combines life expt, literacy, income,gender equality, and yrs of ed. -beter measure of wellbeing than per capita GNP |
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human needs
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basics physical, social, and political needs like food and freedom that are required for survival and security
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PPP
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Purchasing Power Parity
-calculates true exchange among currencies (the index that determines what can be bought with a unit of each currency) |
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Preconditions of Hum. Dev.
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-political freedom (democracy, civil liberties, civil rights)
-national economic growth (richer the country, the freer or vice versa, hum. dev. highest in North) |
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human security
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liberal theory that states the degree to which the welfare of individuals is protected and promoted, in contarst to the realist that places mor importance of the state
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refugee
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people who flee for safety to another country because of a well-founded fear of persecution
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internally displaced people
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people involuntarily uprooted from their homes, but still intheir own countries
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two level game
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because of interdependence leaders will make foreign policy decisions for both international and domestic payoffs
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ethnocentrism
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xenophobia
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fear of foreigners
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facsim
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ethno-nationalism
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ethnic cleansing
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and extermination of an ethnic minority group
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brain drain
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the exodus of the most educated people from their home which deprives he state of its intelectuals
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atrocities
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brutal and savage acts against targeted citizens, prisoners of war
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asylum
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the provision of sanctuary to safeguard refugees escaping from the threat of persecution in the country where they hold citizenship
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The Fourth World
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-indigenous peoples seeking greater rights/autonomy
-often persecuted -130 million slaughtered between 1900 and 1987 by state-sponsored genocide |
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Status of Women
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-inequalities
-lower living standards -lower pay -only 15% of parl. seats -less health care -exacerbated by relgions and culture -feminization of poverty |
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GEM
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Gender Empowerment Measure
-way the UN measures gender inequality |
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noncombatant immunity
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military force shouldn't be used against innocent civilians
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humanitarian intervention
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the use of peacekeeping troops by states of int. org. to protect endangered people
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ICC
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Prosecutes war crimminals
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War crimes
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crimes againstr humanity
crimes that even countries at war are not suppose to committ. |
