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| an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws |
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| to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash |
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| the tendency to regard military efficiency as the supreme ideal of the state and to subordinate all other interests to those of the military |
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| intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries |
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| a state of mutual harmony between people or groups, esp. in personal relations |
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| a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" |
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| a competition between two or more parties for real or apparent military supremacy. Each party competes to produce larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, or superior military technology in a technological escalation. |
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| a military strategy developed during the Cold War. It is especially relevant with regard to the use of nuclear weapons, and figures prominently in current United States foreign policy regarding the development of nuclear technology in North Korea and Iran |
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| the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion |
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| the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage |
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| a proclamation issued by local clergy that granted immunity from violence to noncombatants who could not defend themselves, beginning with the peasants and the clergy |
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| extended the Peace by setting aside certain days of the year when violence was not allowed |
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| the reduction of a nation's army, weapons, or military vehicles to an agreed minimum. Demilitarization is usually the result of a peace treaty ending a war or a major conflict |
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| he art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states |
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| positive or negative responses for the actions of others |
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| a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons. |
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| action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country |
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| the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it |
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| the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power, using no form of violence. It is one of the primary methods of nonviolent resistance |
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| domestic penalties applied by one country (or group of countries) on another for a variety of reasons. Economic sanctions include, but are not limited to, tariffs, trade barriers, import duties, and import or export quotas. The most famous example of an economic sanction is the fifty-year-old United States embargo against Cuba |
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| a sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category |
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| a political maxim which states that no layer of government should take any action that exceeds that which is necessary to achieve the objective of government |
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| developed a theology of just war, that is, war that is acceptable under certain conditions |
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| His leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II remains the subject of continued historical controversy. |
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| His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory |
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| the social process of becoming or being made marginal (to relegate or confine to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge, as of social standing) |
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| set of factors or events by which poverty, once started, is likely to continue unless there is outside intervention |
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| a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation |
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| an American psychologist. He is noted for his conceptualization of a "hierarchy of human needs", and is considered the founder of humanistic psychology |
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