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What are considered the most dangerous weapons in the world?
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land mines
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What is an example of an immediate (or proximate) cause of war?
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Assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914
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What role does misperception play as a cause of war?
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a cause of war in which one or more countries in a dispute misinterpret the intentions of the other
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which country is the world's largest arms exporter?
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United States
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What weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction?
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nuclear, biologicial, chemical
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Which war claimed the highest total number of casualties?
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Vietnam War
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Which treaty bans the manufacture, trade, and use of land mines?
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Ottawa Treaty
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Who are the largest customers for weapons manufacturers?
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the government
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describe the various aspects of terrorism
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Psychological, bombing, arson, kidnapping, hijacking, sabotage, threats, biological (food supply), chemical, environmental
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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:
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general population
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Discuss the various aspects of land mines
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inexpensive, hard to detect and eliminate
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define strategic nuclear triad.
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the ability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and sea
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What is the most common method of terrorism?
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bombing
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The closest the world has come to all-out nuclear war was during:
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The Cold War
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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?
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American Embassy in Paris
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The Contras, sponsered by the CIA, fought a war against the Sandinstas in this country.
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Nicaragua
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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:
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Admiral Stansfield Turner
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When the junta collapsed in this country in 1983, 30,000 people had died or were among the disappeared.
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Argentina
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In 1946 modern terrorism was invented by this group.
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The Irgun
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In this famous case, a famine, which killed somewhere between seven and ten million people, was engineered by Stalin.
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The holocaust
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Among the most persistent human rights issues is
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status of refugees
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Define a "state of nature"
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no established government
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Define war crimes.
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serious violations of both the law regulating internation armed conflict and rules covering interal armed conflicts
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which countries have acknowledged nuclear weapons capability?
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Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
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In which country were women first given the right to vote?
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New Zealand
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There is only one country today where women have founded their own political party.
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Russia
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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:
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radical feminists
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An explanation for the burning of witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is that:
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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 |
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What does the Human Development Index measure?
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a state's economic development
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Where and why was the Grameen Bank formed?
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Bangladesh- Women
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Where was the idea of microcredit conceived?
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Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Bangledesh
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What are the causes for the rise in trafficking?
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poverty, high demand, inadequacy of laws and law enforcement
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Cambodia was a colony of this nation:
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France
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What is the youngest age children have been sold to sex traffickers?
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4
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From where do most of the girls who are trafficked into prostitution come?
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rural
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A ____ is a quantitative restriction or numerical limit on the number of items that can be imported.
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Quota Import
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Since the 1990s, large and sometimes violent protest have been led against which organization?
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World Trade Organization
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Define an infant industry.
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A school of thought that believes emerging domestic industries should be protected until they become stable and mature
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____ 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.
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comparative advantages/liberal economy
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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.
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Adam Simth
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Which theoretical approach to the political economy argues that free trade is bad?
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Communism (Marxism)
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Describe the 1999 "Battle of Seattle"
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People protested because of the WTO Minsterial conference of 1999 which was pro globalization
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___ act like taxes on imports.
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tariff
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the ___ was established to promote economic development in the world's poorer countries by financing specific projects.
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the world bank
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The ___ is the only global internation organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.
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The World Trade Organization
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This man, in 1785, wrote an essay on the connection between slavery and sugar production.
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Thomas Clarkson
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This priest is working with the can laborers in the Dominican Republic and reporting the abuses which occur on the sugar plantations:
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Chistopher Heartly
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What was the role of the School of Americas in Latin America?
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to train people to kill
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