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28 Cards in this Set
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Arms Control
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• Restricting the growth of new arms
• Caps the number of weapons • Limit the growth or cancel the growth • Most agreements are to cap number of nuclear/conventional weapons |
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Disarmament
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• Reducing the number of weapons
• Not necessarily cutting arms to zero |
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Deterrents
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• Something that attempts to stop another thing
• Implied or direct threat of significant harm to an opponent, to prevent them from an unacceptable action |
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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• Prominent Cold War doctrine
• You nuke us, we nuke you ten times worse • Deterrent strategy o Threat deterrent |
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Second Strike Capability
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• Survive a first strike in order to launch a second strike
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Nuclear Proliferation
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• Two kinds of proliferation: Vertical and Horizontal
• Vertical: more nukes in the system increasing • Horizontal: new countries get nukes |
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ICBM
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• Missile that can travel to another continent
• Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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SLBM
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• Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
• Second Strike Capability • Undetectable |
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INF
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• Intermediate Range Nuclear Force
• Europe |
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SALT
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• Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty
• Negotiations with Nixon and Brezhnev • Control the number of ICBM • Limit number of anti-ballistic missile system |
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ABM
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• Soviets created first one
• Fear of first strike |
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SDI
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• Strategic Defense Initiative
Star Wars |
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SALT II
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• Carter and Brezhnev in 1979
• Ceiling on long range bombers, ICBM and SLBM • Problem with Soviet invasion in Afghanistan • Never ratified, yet most sides enacted policies |
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Reagan
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• Signs first reducing act for nuclear weapons
• Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces • Reduce the number to zero • World angry at the United States for militarization • Gorbachev tried to reach out to Reagan |
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Altercasting
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Change of actions/attitudes with hope the other side will change too
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START I
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George HW Bush
o Strategic arms reduction treaty o Cut a third of our nuclear weapons |
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START II
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o 1993
o more reductions o Ratified under Clinton |
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George W Bush
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• Unsigned ABM Treaty
• Mutually assured destruction irrelevant at this point • Argument that ABM construction is for terrorist states • SORT o 2002 o Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty o 3 pages long |
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Economic Liberalism
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• Economic liberty
• Decisions made in the market • Capitalism • Minimal government role • Republicans backed by big business • Notion of positive-sum game |
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Three Schools of International Political Economy
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Liberalism
Mercantilism/Protectionism Marxism |
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Mercantilism/Protectionism
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• State using policy tools to enhance the (private) domestic economy
• Modern tariffs: especially cars • Crawfish Chinese/Louisiana • Stops free trade • Economic Realism • Democrats backed by Unions • Zero sum game Only so many cars sold, if US cars not sold we aren’t helped |
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Comparative Advantage
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• Some countries do things better more efficiently than others
• Chinese advantage in crawfish • Best |
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Free Trade Leaders
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Dubya (steel protectionism)
Clinton Kerry (less than Clinton) |
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Protectionist Leaders
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Pat Buchanan
Obama (center right) Ross Perot Dick Gephardt |
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NAFTA/WTO
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o Anti-protectionist
o World Trade Organization • Judicial Power |
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Economic determinism
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• How society is set up and how that leads to its workings
• Economic system reigns supreme |
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Marxist Solution
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• Do away with private property
• Give everyone basic necessities • From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs |
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Falsities of Marx
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• Capitalism has not failed yet, no rising up against the rich
• No mention of efficiency of capitalism, continuous increase in productivity • The American Dream o Hope keeps capitalism alive • Government can restrain capitalism o Welfare o Labor Laws o Union o Capitalist sometimes allow this |
