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Mao Zedong
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chairman of China
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totalitarian
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regime that attempts total control
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authoritarian
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dictatorial regime but milder than totalitarian
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Open door
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Us policy of china; trade open to all and keeping china intact
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trade deficit
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buying more from other countries than you sell to them
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great proletarian cultural revolution
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campaign unleashed by Mao
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shogun
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a military chief who ruled by armed force and by carefully balancing the powers of lesser lords
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Meiji
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Japan's period of rapid modernization starting in 1868
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nonrecognition
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refusal to grant diplomatic recognition
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embargo
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ban on shipping goods to certain countries
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attache
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military officer serving in an embassy, a legal spy
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manchukuo
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Japanese puppet state in Manchuria
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protectionism
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protecting own goods
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reserve currency
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world standards for money; used for most trade deals
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fixed exchange rate
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one currency buys a set of number of other currencies.
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floating exchange rate
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one currency buys varying numbers of other currencies
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bubble
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market that has gone too high
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Keynesian economics
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use of government spending to fight recessions
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subprime mortgage
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home loan with no money down
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WTO
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set up to settle trade disputes
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symbol
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small thing or gesture that makes a political statement
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recognition
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one country's opening of diplomatic relations with another
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Foreign service
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career corps of professional diplomats
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third party
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someone not party to a dispute
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good offices
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giving disputants a meeting place
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mediation
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suggesting compromises to disputants
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arbitration
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disputants' agreement to obey thrid party decision
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Customary international law
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law that has grown up because most countries preach it and dont want to be caught violating it.
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gernal javier perez du cueller
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brought france and new zealand together under his good offices to settle the sinking green peace protest vessel
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diplomatic immunity
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diplomats are treated well
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rule court
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set up to make sure not one country dominates
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impartial
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not favoring
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ratify
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to formally accept treaty as binding
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territorial limit
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extent of sovereignty from states' shores, typically extending 12 miles
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executive agreement
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a commitment of less importance than a treaty
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On the law of war and peace
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book written by hugh de groot in reaction to the barbarity of the thirty years war
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diplomatic status
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want diplomats to be free from any harrassment
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anacronism
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out of time.. in the past
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How does the drought affect have anything to do with Darfur?
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nomads have no water so they take from villages
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genocide
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eliminating an ethnic group
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What are some problems with peace keepers
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It's expensive, soon wouldn't have much to do, launguage/difficult culture problems
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hegemoney
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dominance
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collective security
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based on the assumption that everyone wants peace. countries are angry over borders due to the war
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league of nations
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old UN formed before WW1
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Why is it hard for the united nations to keep peace?
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because of sovereign nations
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Internation Relations
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Interactions among countries
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balance of power
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theory that states form alliances to offset threatening states
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sovereignty
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concept that each state rules its own territory
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Bismarckian
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contrived, unstable balance of power from 1870 to 1914
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bipolar
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the world divided into two power centers, as in the cold war.
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stratified
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power distributed in layers
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supernational
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power above the national level, as in the UN
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manifest destiny
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slogan calling a U.S. continental republic
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imperialism
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spreading nation's power over other lands
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isolationism
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U.S avoidance of overseas involvement.
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Lend Lease
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U.S aid to allies in WW2
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Truman Doctrine
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The 1947 presidential call to aid countries under communist threat
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McCarthyism
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Senater Josepth McCarthy's early - 1950's accusations of treason in high places
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Geneva Accords
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the 1954 agreement to end the first Vietnam war
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Guerrilla warfare
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small-unit irregular struggle based on political revolution
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vietcong
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informal name of communist-led south vietnamese national liberation front in the 1960's
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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the 1964 congressional permission for president to go to war in vietnam
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Paris Accords
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The 1973 agreement to end the second Vietnam war.
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interventionism
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U.S. willingness to use military force overseas
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foreign policy
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the way a country deals with the outside world
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behavioralism
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studying humans by empirical evidence, often quantified.
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idealism
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basing foreign policy on moral, ethical, legal, or world-order principles
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deficit
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a federal budget that spends more than it takes in
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entitlements
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required federal expenditures, such as social security and medicare, to large classes of U.S. citizens.
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National Security Council
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The president's foreign-policy coordinating body
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bureaucracies
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Career civil servants organized into various departments and bureaus
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unilateralism
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foreign policies without allied help or consultation
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neo-conservative
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ex-liberal favoring use of force over seas.
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geopolitics
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the impact of geography of international politics
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socialism
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state ownership of economy to end class differences
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marxism
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militant, revolutionary form of socialism
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ideology
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belief system that society can be improved by following certain doctrines
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mobilization
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getting an army ready for immediate war
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Five-Year plans
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Stalin's forced industrialization in the 1930's
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nonagression pact
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treaty to not attack each other
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Yalta
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early 1945 agreement by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt on who got what in Germany and East Europe
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worst-casing
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tendency to see enemy as stronger than it is
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hegemony
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leading or dominating other countries
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legitimacy
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Citizens feeling that government's rule is rightful
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detente
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relaxation of tensions between hostile countries
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imperial overstretch
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theory that powerful nations tend to over-expand and weaken
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KGB
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soviet intelligence and security police
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privatization
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the selling of state owned assets to private interests
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kieptocracy
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rule of thieves
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colonialism
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the gaining and exploitation of overseas territories, chiefly by Europeans
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decolonization
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the granting of independence to colonies
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pan-Africanism
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movement to unite all of Africa
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anarchic
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lacking government order
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apartheid
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South Africa's system of strict racial segregation from 1948 to the early 1990s
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divide and rule
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roman and british ruling method of setting subjects against each other
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Raj
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british colonial rule in india.
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partition
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dividing a country along ethnic or religious lines
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secularism
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keeping religion seperate from governance
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tribalism
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identifying with tribe rather than with country
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cilentelism
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distributing funds in exchange for political support
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zionism
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Jewish nationalism focused on gaining and keeping Israel as a jewish state
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ottoman
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turkish empire in balkans and middle east from fourteenth century to WW1
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nationalism
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a people's sense of identity and unity, often exaggerated and focused against foreigners
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caliphate
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muslim empire
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preempt
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to strike first on the eve of war
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logistics
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the supplying of an army
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intifada
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arabic for uprising; includes suicide bombings
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rejectionist
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Those who reject compromise peace
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populist
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A crowd-pleasing politician, claims to represent "the people" against elites
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Shia
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Minority branch of Islam but Iran's state religion
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Sunni
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mainstream Islam
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secular
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nonreligious; separation of church and state
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Kurds
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Nationality inhabiting area where Iraq, Iran, and Turkey meet.
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indigena
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preferred latin American term for Indian
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creole
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spaniard born in the new world
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narcotraficante
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drug trafficker
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mestizo
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person of mixed indian spanish decent
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coup
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extralegal seizure of power, usually by military
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exploitation
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paying producers less than they deserve
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demagoguery
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politics through the manipulation of votes by extravagant promises
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NAFTA
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links United States, Canada and Mexico
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Bay of Pigs
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the failed 1961 CIA-backed attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
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neocolonialism
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Rich-country dominance by indirect, economic means
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culture
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the sum total of a group's leaned behavior
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demonstration effect
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one country copying another's success
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offshore
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to move production overseas
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transparency
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business and political transactions open to public view
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informal economy
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transactions
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causality
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providing that one thing causes another
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reactionary
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extreamly conservative; favors returning to old ways
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level of analysis
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where you suppose causality resides in individuals, states, or the international system.
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escalation
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tendency of wars to get bigger and fiercer
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misperceive
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to see things wrongly
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arms race
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competition between rival countries to build more weapons
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analogy
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a previous situation that explains a present one
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coercive disarmament
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methods of compelling a foe to give up weapons
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appeasement
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a concession to satisfy a hostile country; in disrepute since hitler
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proliferation
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more states acquiring nuclear weapons
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conventional forces
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non-nuclear military strength
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deterrence
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dissuading attack by showing its high costs
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arms control
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limiting weapons systems
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non-proliferation treaty (NPT)
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The 1968 agreement that nuclear powers will not transfer nuclear-weapons technology and non-nuclear powers will not acquire it.
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decaptiation
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the removal of a country's leadership and ability to direct its war effort
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invasion insurance
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ability to deter invasion by possessing even a few nuclear weapons
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caliphate
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muslim dynasty ruled by caliphs,
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common market
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Early and informal name for European Economic community, now EU
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