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30 Cards in this Set
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Agitational Objectives of Terrorism
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Promoting the Group, Advertising its agenda, and or discrediting its rivals. SHOCKING BEHAVIOR TAKES NOTICE
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Coercive Objectives of Terrorism
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Disorienting a target pop. Inflating the perceived power of the terrorist group, provoking a heavy-handed overreaction from police/military.
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Organizational Objectives of Terrorism
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-Acquiring resources
-forging group cohension -maintaining an underground network of supporters -high initiation cost=low defection rates |
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Bush Doctrine
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Policy that singles out states that support terrorist groups, and advocates military strikes against, to prevent a future attack on U.S
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Reagan Doctrine
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U.S backs any anti-communist insurgents who sought to overthrow their government
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Truman Doctrine
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pleged support to those who allied themselves with the U.S. against external subjugation (U.S.S.R)
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Opportunity Costs
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Concept in decision making theories that when the occasion arrises to use resources, what is gained for one purpose is lost for other purposes, so every choice entails lost opportunity.
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NPT
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International Agreement that seeks to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons by prohibiting further nuke sales/acquisition/production. (Iran/Pakistan/N.Korea/India broken pact.)
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Preemptive War
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Quick attack to defeat an enemy before they can organize (Pearl Harbor)
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Preventative War
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War undertaken to prelude an adversary from attacking in the future.
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Coercive Diplomacy
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Use of threat or limited armed force to persuade an adversary to alter its foreign/domestic policy
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Ultimatum
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End of Coersive Diplomacy, is a demand that contains a time limit for compliance, and a threat of punishment for resistance
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(MAD)
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Mutually Assured Destruction: system of deterrence in which both sides poses ability to survive a first strike, and launch devastating retaliation attacks.
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocide
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Defines as intent to destroy or intent to
1.) killing members of a group 2.) Causing serious body/mental harm 3.) Deliberately enforcing condition on a group to bring about destruction 4.) Improving measures to prevent birth in a group |
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Punishable actions of genocide
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1.) Conspiring to commit genocide
2.) Direct/Public incitement to commit 3.) Attempting to commit 4.) Complicity in Genocide |
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Dehumanization
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process which members of a group assert "inferiority" of another group through subtle or direct statements (example: Hutu, or Jews).
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Refugee
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Alian unwilling oto return to his/her country of origin in fear of persecution of race, religion, political preference, etc.
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Scenario
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Narrative Description showing how some hypothetical event in the future state of affairs might evolve out of present.
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Realist Theory
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Establishes the ruthlessness of states in regards to others. Seek to establish relative power at the expense of other states. (Self Help/Relative Gain.)
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Liberal Theory
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response to Realist Theory. Speaks to issues realism disregards (impact of economic interdependence, and the role of international institutions facilitating international cooperations.)
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Constructionist Theory
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Impact on ideas in regard to international relations. World leaders are influenced on how they see the world.
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5 principles of a good theory
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1.) Clarity-clearly framed
2.) Parsimony-simplifies reality 3.) Explanatory Power- empirical support 4.) Prescriptive Richness- policy rec. 5.) Falsifiability-can be proven wrong |
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General Assembly
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Main deliberative body of U.N: All members equally rep. (51% maj.) Important q's is 2/3 vote
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Security Council
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primary job of dealing w/ security threats to international peace. 5 permanent veto members (US, Fra, UK, Russia, China.)
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Economic and Social Council
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Responsible for coordinating UN's social and eco programs. 54 members elected by Gen. Assembly (3 yr terms)
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Int. Court of Justice
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15 judges, 9 yr. terms by sec. council.
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Secretariat
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Led by sec.-general. the civil servants who perform the admin/secretarial functions.
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Geopolotics
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school of thought claims that states foreign policies are determined by location/resources/environment.
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Radical Theory
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overemphasizes economic relationships. Marxist theory, saying first world countries exploit 3rd world nations
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Dependency Theory
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Poor countries export raw materials to industrial nations, while importing expensive produced goods.
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