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POLS 131: FINAL STUDY
sovereignty |
supreme uncontested authority of a territory
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War |
range of violent actions from full scale clashed to small scale incidents
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Peace |
situations ranging from uneasy and tense abscence of war to permanent peace were groups see force as unimaginable
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international system |
the organizations and processes that people and states use to interact across state borders
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international anarchy |
absence of governance, of political rule, anarchy applies to the international system of sovereign states.
-not mean an absence of order.
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Power |
the ability for someone to make someone else do something they wouldn't normally do for them
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Small powers |
can change own affairs only
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regional powers |
direct effect on neighbors as well as themselves
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great powers |
influence regional and some places around the world
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Super powers |
political, economic and military effectiveness world wide.Usually they have nuclear missiles.
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humanitarian intervention |
threats to the peace are managed by deploying peacekeeping troops and delivering food and medical aid
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war strategies- show of force |
bluffing w/ military to scare off enemies.
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war strateg- conventional war |
what we think of as war. troops armed forces reg war
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nuclear war |
nukes are weapons that are the force not the military size or use of it. new kind of war its scary and its mostly for bluffing but its bad news bears. makes self defense more important cuz u cant get past a nuke
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Guerilla Wars |
hit and run status like mini civil wars. they can end up in creating actual wars or if not enough troops then they look like terrorists.
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Terrorism |
is not w/out thought. act or threat of violence for political purposes.
domestic-attack gov people nationalist- go beyond beyond change of policy, usually want state independence state sponsored- al qaeda, gov funds resources
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Balance of Power |
system, states or groups choose not to use force because they consider the potential cost too high. sometimes good idea.
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economic sanctions |
these actions are designed to encourage states to change their policies by cutting off trade and financial flows.
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propaganda |
an attempt to influence through emotional appeals
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diplomacy |
entails direct negotiations between two or more government or IGO's
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revisionist states |
states trying to boost their military powers level and troops and weapons to get a war for something they want. or to show force to get it
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status quo states |
states happy w/ level of power. scared by revisionist that they are gonna get bigger than them and attack
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international rule of law |
where states share rules not written yet but practiced by citizens enough to eventually become law. for peace mostly common courtesy
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