Psc124 - Ch 5

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Hegemonic War (p.153)

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War over control of the entire world order

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Total War (p.153)

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Warfare by on state waged to conquer and occupy another

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Limited War (p.153)

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Military actions carried out to gain some objective short of the surrender and occupation of the enemy

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Civil War (p.155)

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War between factions within a state trying to create, or prevent, a new government for the entire state or some territorial part of it

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Guerrilla War (p.155)

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(can include civil wars) Warfare without front lines

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Truth Commissions (p.156)

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Hear honest testimony from the period, to bring light to what really happened, and in exchange to offer most of the participants asylum from punishment

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Individual Analysis

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Theories about war center on rationality

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Domestic Analysis

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Draws attention to the characteristics of states or societies that may make them more or less prone to use violence in resolving conflicts

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Interstate Analysis

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Explain wars in terms of power relations among major actors in the international system

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Global Analysis

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War on a global scale and that international warfare is cylical

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Cycle Theories

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An effort to explain tendencies toward war in the international system as cyclical, for example, by linking wars with long waves in the world economy

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Nationalism (p.160)

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Identification with and devotion to the interests of one's nation. It usually involves a large group of people who share a national identity and often a language, culture, or ancestry

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Fascism (p.161)

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An extreme authoritarianism girded by national chauvinism

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Self-Determination (p.161)

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People who identify as a nation should have the right to form a state and exercise sovereignty over their affairs

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Ethnic Groups (p.162)

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Large groups of people who share ancestral, language, cultural, or religious ties and a common identity

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Ethnocentrism (in-group bias) (p.164)

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The tendency to see one's own group in favorable terms and an out-group in unfavorable terms

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Dehumanization (p.164)

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Stigmatization of enemies as subhuman or nonhuman, leading frequently to widespread massacres or worse

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Genocide (p.166)

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An intentional and systematic attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or part. It was confirmed as a crime under international law by the UN Genocide Convention (1948)

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Fundamentalism (p.168)

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Members organize their lives and communities around their religious beliefs; many are willing to sacrifice, kill, and die for those beliefs.

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Secular (state) (p.168)

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A state created apart from religious establishments and in which there is a high degree of separation between religious and political organizations

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Ethnic Identity (PP Ch5-1, 21)

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The tendency for human beings, individually and in groups, to establish, maintain, and protect a sense of self-meaning, predictability, and purpose

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Intractability/Intractable Conflict

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A situation in which a conflict is highly resistant to resolution

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Collusion

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The final stage of intractability

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Distortion

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Psychological response to threat to force meaning onto information or event that is invalidating

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Irredentism (p.177)

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A form of nationalism whose goal is to regain territory lost to another state; it can lead directly to violent interstate conflicts

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Secession (p.178)

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Efforts by a province or region to secede from an existing state

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Ethnic Cleansing (p.180)

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Euphemism for forced displacement of an ethnic group or groups from a territory, accompanied by massacres and other human rights violations; it has occurred after the breakup of multinational states, notably in the former Yugoslavia

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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A conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs in the Middle East. The United Nations established Israel in Palestine in the late 1940s, a territory inhabited by Palestinian Arabs.

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Mercantilism (p.283)

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An economic theory and a political ideology opposed to free trade; it shares with realism the belief that each state must protect its own interests without seeking mutual gains through international organizations.

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Lateral Pressure (p.186)

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The economic growth of states leads to geographic expansion as they seek natural resources beyond their borders (by various means, peaceful and violent)