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Glasnost and Perestroika
Policy of greater openness pursued by soveit leader
Glansost. Greater toleration of dissent and
criticismPerestroika: another soviets way to modernized
russia's policial and econimic system. Hand and hand with
glasnost
TERM 2
Capitalism
DEFINITION 2
Human labor and its products commodities which are bought
and sold
TERM 3
Jihad
DEFINITION 3
Struggle: The struggle to help society more closly resesmble
the koran
TERM 4
Civil Society
DEFINITION 4
Everyone else whose not part of the goverment or comercial
companies
TERM 5
Security Dilemma
DEFINITION 5
When one state improves its security, it creates insecurity for
other states
WMD
Anything comparable to an A bomb
TERM 7
Mutilateralism
DEFINITION 7
States working together to solve a common problem
TERM 8
Enlightenment
DEFINITION 8
Rationalist thinkers of the 18th century. Secularism, reason,
science, knowledge and freedom. Have courage to know!
TERM 9
Free trade
DEFINITION 9
No barriers on trade between states
TERM 10
empire
DEFINITION 10
A state that has a home and foreign territories
preventive
war
Launch a war to eliminate a threat. (blitz before they are
ready)
TERM 17
material vs. ideational
DEFINITION 17
Material: something exsistant, can touch/consume.
OILIdeational: Ideas like democravy, capitalism etc
TERM 18
failed or failing state
DEFINITION 18
State has no citizen loyalty, or monoply of force to control its
territory. No fear or love.
TERM 19
thinktanks
DEFINITION 19
Groups like heritage foundation, and center for american
progress. Stupid stuff
TERM 20
exceptionalism
DEFINITION 20
Ethnocentric to our policies
preventive
war
Kill first, prevent war later
TERM 22
global goverance
DEFINITION 22
Establishes international regeims to do stuff in different
countries. Like a coloney goverement
TERM 23
regimes
DEFINITION 23
governing arragments in a region norms, rules, procedures,
etc
TERM 24
international law
DEFINITION 24
rules between states about conduct
TERM 25
international organizations (IGO)
DEFINITION 25
legally constitued organization established by states to
handel problems. Limited to goverements
hegemony
A leading state. Dominant leader
TERM 32
genocide
DEFINITION 32
diliberate extermination of a race, nation etc
TERM 33
appeasement
DEFINITION 33
Give me gold or I will conquer you. "Ok"
TERM 34
national self-determination
DEFINITION 34
I want to rule myself, no more britain
TERM 35
globalization
DEFINITION 35
The linking of distant communities and expands power
relations
imperialism
foriegn conquest and rule. Forms an empire
TERM 37
Little bee teachs up about global politics
DEFINITION 37
The world is flat. Far reaching affects
TERM 38
G. Bush, Iraq war, War on terror
DEFINITION 38
make up some bs
TERM 39
bush doctrine vs obama
DEFINITION 39
Doctrine = foreign policy Bush=confront threats of terrorism
and states head on Obama=nonforce liberal methods
TERM 40
US war in Pakinstan (role of domestic politics
in shaping foreign policies)
DEFINITION 40
Secret kill al quada:
Three approaches to US foriegn policy
TERM 47
NON state actors NGO, IGO, MNC (decline of
nation state system)
DEFINITION 47
NGO =non commercial, nonvileltn, not on behalf of a
goveremtnnon-goveremntal organization EWB
IGO=intergovermental organization UN, world bank
MNC=multinational corporations go where the profit is COke
TERM 48
Alternative Theroies (constructivist, feminist,
marxist)
DEFINITION 48
Constructivist=Figure out what is good, and do that
Feminist=change womens inequality Marxist=stateless and
classless society, the workers run the country
TERM 49
Realism
DEFINITION 49
the belief that reality exists independently of observers,
whether in philosophy itself or in the applied arts and
sciences. Self interest drives the world. The prince Nation
interest beats morals
TERM 50
Liberal internationalism
DEFINITION 50
liberal states should intervene in other sovereign states in
order to pursue liberal objectives.
neo-conservatism
political individualism and a qualified endorsement of free
markets.
TERM 52
conference(congress) of berlin
DEFINITION 52
Europeans bickering over Africa, about who gets what
TERM 53
colonization
DEFINITION 53
yep
TERM 54
popular sovereignty
DEFINITION 54
By the people, for the people. People=power
TERM 55
sovereignty
DEFINITION 55
Sovernty: Goverment has no higher obligations then itself
nationalism(national identity) vs. global
citizen
Identity to your nation, is nationalism global citizen is a
citizen of the world
TERM 62
2 big problems of nation states
DEFINITION 62
Mathcing nation and state Problems are global but power is
distrubuted through nation states
TERM 63
state vs. nation
DEFINITION 63
Nation,=Not limited to a country State=reconized sovergty of
a country , with stable goverment
TERM 64
nation-state
DEFINITION 64
state claims its a state and can handle itself sovereign state
of which most of the citizens or subjects are united also by
factors which define a nation, such as language or common
descent.
