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