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| Support people who aren't communist. A straregty to prevent a great power rival for using force to alter the balance of power and increase its sphere influence. |
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| International structure dominated by 2 great powers |
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| International structure dominated by multipul great powers |
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| Metaphor popular during the Cold War predicitng that if one state falls to communism, its neighboring state will also fall like a "chain of dominos" - stop the first domino |
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193 Current Memebers
Pass Resolutions - but aren't binding on states
Basically it's a meeting between every state
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15 Members : 5 of them are perminate
(US, China, Russia, UK, France)
10 members are rotating. Voted on by Genearal Assembly
Voting Structer 9/15 = 60% required
Perminate Members have a veto - if 1 perminate member vetos, it wont happen.
"If the great powers can't agree, nothing will happen |
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The General is essentially the president/spokesperson
This person is Ban Ki-Moon, from South Korea
The genearl is nominated by the Security Council adn approved by the General Assembly.
Limited power - Agenda Setting/Moral Leadership |
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| War by one state waged to conquer and occupy another state |
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Political violence that targets civilans deliberately and indiscriminately. More that guerrilla warefare, terrorism is a shadowy world of faceless enemies and irregular tactics marked by extreme brutality.
Calcualted use of violence as leverage/very psychological |
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| Efforts by a province or region to secede from an existing state. Efforts to draw international boarders around a new state |
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| Stratigic Defese Initative (SDI) |
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A U.S. effort to develop defenses that could shoot down incoming balistic missles, spurred by Ronald Regan. Critics call in an expensive failure that will likely be ineffective.
Defense against nukes |
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| People usually work on a problem until they come up with a "good enough" option that meets the minimal critera. Can't think about the possitives and negatives of every single scenario |
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| Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) |
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| The treated that created a framework for controlling the spread of nuclear materials and expertise, as well as IAEA inspecting the nuclear power industry in NPT member states to prevent secret military diversions of nuclear materials. US and Inda would also then share nuclear technology in exchange.\ |
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The tendency to see ones own group in favorable terms and an out-group in unfavorable terms
(bias) |
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| A policy adopted in the late 40's by which the U.S. sought to halt global expansion of soviet influence on several levels - military/political/ideological/economic |
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| Chemical Weapons Convention |
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| An agreement that bans the production and possession of chemical weapons and this includes strict verification provisions and the threat of sanctions against violators and non-particpants in the treaty. |
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War of control of the entire world order - the rules of the international system as a whole.
AKA: World War/Global War/Genarl War/Systematic War |
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The spokesman of the UN Secretariat
Has little power - Agenda Setting/Moral Leadership
Nominated by Security Council/approved by General Assembly. |
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| Soviet Ambassador that JFK's brother met with during the Cuban Missle Crisis to remove middle range missles from cuba. |
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The son of Kim-Jong Il
Leader of North Korea
Youngest of all his siblings
Went to school in Switzerland
No real biography on him - loves basketball |
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Leader of Cuba during Cuban Missle Crisis
Ally to Russia's Nikita Khrushchev |
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Russia's Leader during the Cuban Missle Crisis
Put middle range nukes in Cuba to threaten U.S.
Was close to starting a war with U.S. but didn't want to start another war right after WWII
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| Discribe the three modles of foreign polict decision making that we have discussed in class. Which of the three models do you think was most important part of American decision making during the Cuban Missle Crisis? Provide detail of the Cuban Missle Crisis in your response. |
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Rational Actor Modes (optimal solution)
- States are rational and unitary acots
- States identify foreign policy problems and the options available for dealing with the problems
- States weigh the bros and cons of each policy alternative
- States make a value-maximizing choice
Orginizational Process Model "good enough"
- States are not unitary actors
- Instead of weighing the pros and cons of all possible options, they often rely Standard Operating Procedures
- SOPs - establish or prescribed methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or in designated situations
Gov't Bargainning model
- Key actors are leaders
- Where you stand on an issue depnds on where you sit in the gov't
- Bargaining ability - having an ear for the president
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| Discrive (with detail) Samuel Huntington's main argument in Clash of Civilizations. What are two criticisms of this argument? Do you think that Huntington's argument is mostly right or mostly wrong? |
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the principal conflicts of global politics in this new world will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.”
1. There are more than 8 different civilizations
2. Post Cold-War civilizations will unite together |
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| Provide at least two reasons why the U.S. should stop North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons and at least two reasons why the US should allow North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. Which side do you find most persuasive? Your answer must include a definition and discussion of Mutually Assured Destruction |
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