World Perspective Ch 10-12

Front 1

What are considered the most dangerous weapons in the world?

Back 1

land mines

Front 2

What is an example of an immediate (or proximate) cause of war?

Back 2

Assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914

Front 3

What role does misperception play as a cause of war?

Back 3

a cause of war in which one or more countries in a dispute misinterpret the intentions of the other

Front 4

which country is the world's largest arms exporter?

Back 4

United States

Front 5

What weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction?

Back 5

nuclear, biologicial, chemical

Front 6

Which war claimed the highest total number of casualties?

Back 6

Vietnam War

Front 7

Which treaty bans the manufacture, trade, and use of land mines?

Back 7

Ottawa Treaty

Front 8

Who are the largest customers for weapons manufacturers?

Back 8

the government

Front 9

describe the various aspects of terrorism

Back 9

Psychological, bombing, arson, kidnapping, hijacking, sabotage, threats, biological (food supply), chemical, environmental

Front 10

Terrorists normally target ______ because the terrorists believe the attack will be highly publicized and, thus, result in political pressure that forces a change that the governing authorities wouldn't otherwise make:

Back 10

general population

Front 11

Discuss the various aspects of land mines

Back 11

inexpensive, hard to detect and eliminate

Front 12

define strategic nuclear triad.

Back 12

the ability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and sea

Front 13

What is the most common method of terrorism?

Back 13

bombing

Front 14

The closest the world has come to all-out nuclear war was during:

Back 14

The Cold War

Front 15

Kamel Daoudi was arrested in England on suspicion that he was part of a plot by al Qaeda to blow up which building and where?

Back 15

American Embassy in Paris

Front 16

The Contras, sponsered by the CIA, fought a war against the Sandinstas in this country.

Back 16

Nicaragua

Front 17

This admiral and former head of the CIA felt that the mining of the Nicaraguan harbor by the contras was an act of state-sponsored terror:

Back 17

Admiral Stansfield Turner

Front 18

When the junta collapsed in this country in 1983, 30,000 people had died or were among the disappeared.

Back 18

Argentina

Front 19

In 1946 modern terrorism was invented by this group.

Back 19

The Irgun

Front 20

In this famous case, a famine, which killed somewhere between seven and ten million people, was engineered by Stalin.

Back 20

The holocaust

Front 21

Among the most persistent human rights issues is

Back 21

status of refugees

Front 22

Define a "state of nature"

Back 22

no established government

Front 23

Define war crimes.

Back 23

serious violations of both the law regulating internation armed conflict and rules covering interal armed conflicts

Front 24

which countries have acknowledged nuclear weapons capability?

Back 24

Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.

Front 25

In which country were women first given the right to vote?

Back 25

New Zealand

Front 26

There is only one country today where women have founded their own political party.

Back 26

Russia

Front 27

This type of femninist international relations theory focuses on the role of culture in downplaying women's experience and women's way of acquiring knowledge:

Back 27

radical feminists

Front 28

An explanation for the burning of witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is that:

Back 28

women were trying to become socially independent
science and masculinity- witches concerned with politics or life of ideas which is manly bc women are associated with emotions

Front 29

What does the Human Development Index measure?

Back 29

a state's economic development

Front 30

Where and why was the Grameen Bank formed?

Back 30

Bangladesh- Women

Front 31

Where was the idea of microcredit conceived?

Back 31

Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Bangledesh

Front 32

What are the causes for the rise in trafficking?

Back 32

poverty, high demand, inadequacy of laws and law enforcement

Front 33

Cambodia was a colony of this nation:

Back 33

France

Front 34

What is the youngest age children have been sold to sex traffickers?

Back 34

4

Front 35

From where do most of the girls who are trafficked into prostitution come?

Back 35

rural

Front 36

A ____ is a quantitative restriction or numerical limit on the number of items that can be imported.

Back 36

Quota Import

Front 37

Since the 1990s, large and sometimes violent protest have been led against which organization?

Back 37

World Trade Organization

Front 38

Define an infant industry.

Back 38

A school of thought that believes emerging domestic industries should be protected until they become stable and mature

Front 39

____ posists that, in a liberal internation economy, countries should specialize in what they produce most efficiently and/or at lowest cost compared to other countries.

Back 39

comparative advantages/liberal economy

Front 40

Economic liberalism, fist fully formulated by ______ advocates minimal interference by government in the economy and that countries should be free to trade with each other.

Back 40

Adam Simth

Front 41

Which theoretical approach to the political economy argues that free trade is bad?

Back 41

Communism (Marxism)

Front 42

Describe the 1999 "Battle of Seattle"

Back 42

People protested because of the WTO Minsterial conference of 1999 which was pro globalization

Front 43

___ act like taxes on imports.

Back 43

tariff

Front 44

the ___ was established to promote economic development in the world's poorer countries by financing specific projects.

Back 44

the world bank

Front 45

The ___ is the only global internation organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.

Back 45

The World Trade Organization

Front 46

This man, in 1785, wrote an essay on the connection between slavery and sugar production.

Back 46

Thomas Clarkson

Front 47

This priest is working with the can laborers in the Dominican Republic and reporting the abuses which occur on the sugar plantations:

Back 47

Chistopher Heartly

Front 48

What was the role of the School of Americas in Latin America?

Back 48

to train people to kill