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22 Cards in this Set
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The first Industrial Revolution was triggered by what invention?
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Steam Engine
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The second industrial revolution was triggered by?
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telephone and electricity
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The third industrial revolution was triggered by?
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The Internet
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What invention is credited with playing a major role in onsetting the reformation?
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JohannGutenberg’s (1398–1468) invention of movable type, which allowed printing ofthe Bible and made it accessible to large portions of the European population.
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Is the information revolution world politics? Views of Realism, liberalism, constructivism, complex interdependency theory. |
- Information Revolution:Realists see a change in style, but not a basictransformation of world politics. States remain the main actors and thisrevolution will benefit the largest states. Liberals: Liberals agree that states will remain the basic units ofworld politics, but the role of democratic states will increase, and cause theKantian democratic peace. As openness and democracy spread, the liberals see achange in the nature of the relations among states. Constructivists: While the international system is still bestunderstood as a system of sovereign states, constructivists argue that we canbegin to discern a pattern of cross-cutting communities and governance thatresembles the situation before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to a cyberfeudalism. Complex interdependence: states and transnational actors, economic manipulationand the use of international institutions, and welfare as primary goal. Therevolution is causing paradox of plenty and propaganda.
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Cyber feudalism
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Reversalof the modern centralized state with overlapping communities and jurisdictionslaying claim to multiple layers of citizens’ identities and loyalties.
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- Paradoxof Plenty
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When people areoverwhelmed with the volume of information confronting them, they havedifficulty discerning what to focus on.
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What are the two ways interdependence broadens the agenda of international relation? |
Via transnational actorsand NGO’s
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what is the importance of the NGO in world politics?
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The importance of NGO’s in world politics: actas a “global conscience” representing broad public interests beyond the purviewof individual states, or that states are wont to ignore
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Two ways NGO's help devoulp norms?
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Two ways in which NGO’s help develop norms: theysometimes help develop new norms by directly pressing governments and businessleaders to change policies and indirectly by altering public perceptions ofwhat governments and firms should be doing.
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States will remain major actors because only states can fulfill these popular requirements
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Three ways to address terrorism
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(1) is through steady, painstaking security andintelligence work, conducted in (2) collaboration with friends and allies, (3)combined with policies designed to starve terrorist groups of recruits and cutoff their access to the material and financial resources necessary to mountdeadly attacks
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Terrorism
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Under Americanlaw it is premeditated, politically motivated violence against noncombatanttargets by subnational groups.
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is killing of noncombatants by a state a war crime? |
deliberately kill noncombatants to terrorize a population, it is a war crime.
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Name 2 major impediments to a common definition of terrorism.
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Two major impediments to a common definition ofterrorism: The cliché third world countries “one’s manterrorist another’s freedom fighter”.
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Did reformation lead to peace?
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No, it lead to the thirty years war.
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was the reformation marked by secularism and liberal tolerance?
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Protestantreformations was surely not one marked by peace and supposed secular andliberal tolerance. The reformation and the subsequent counter-reformationbecame deeply entangled with more than a century of war in Europe, MartinLuther was profoundly intolerant of Jews for instance, and Protestants have hada long history of anti-Catholicism. Led to thirtyyears of war
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What process caused the separation of church and state in Europe?
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- Separationof the church and the state in Europe: The print of the Bible and The protestant reformation
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was Henry VIII a secular leader?
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The king declared himself England’s supreme political and religious leader
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How did history evolve differently in France and England?
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England in 1534, when English King Henry VIII split with the Vatican, he made himself the head of the newly proclaimed Church of England. And France, The French Revolution, confiscated church land, banned monastic orders, and forced priests to swear an oath to the civil constitution and more beheadings.
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KemalAtaturk path to secular nation
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He expropriated the property of religious foundations and banned religious orders. And he was so committed to teaching an anti-Catholic view of European history — inspired by both protestant prejudice and French revolutionary secularism —
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Caliph
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is a political and religious leader in an Islamic state
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