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| What did the Melians say to the Athenians? |
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| They did not accept the proposition and were eventually killed. |
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| Why weren't the Athenians allowed to speak to all of the Melian people? |
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| It would bring more fear to the Melian people as a whole and they would be more easily swayed. |
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| What do the Athenians argue first? |
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| Athenians overthrew the Medes which freed Melians and Athenians. |
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| Based on the Melian dialogue, what is the essential concept of International Relations? |
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| ""...right, as the world foes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must..." |
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| How could the Melians explain their alliance with Athens, according to the Athenians? |
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| The alliance is for self-preservation and they might be better off financially. |
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| What do the Melians point to? |
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| Whose article directly contributed to the policy of containment? |
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| Dr. George F. Kennan or "X" in his article "Sources of Soviet Conduct" |
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| What are the three essentials to International Relations? |
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1. military force
2. diplomacy
3. economics & trade |
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| What are the three eras of "balance of power"? |
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1648-1789 IR understood in the context of 1648 Peace of Westphalia
1789-1814 French Revolution & Napoleon
1814-1914 IR understood in context of Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) |
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| What is the basis for modern understanding of IR? |
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| E.H. Carr (1892-1982) "The Twenty Years Crisis": Realism vs. Idealism |
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| Pillar of Realism, former White House employee, he held emphasis on human nature, nations, national interest and power |
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| What was Woodrow Wilson's position? |
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| He is a pillar of ethics and idealistic or at least, hopeful notions-democracy, diplomacy, and progressive-ism. |
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| What is American Exceptional-ism? |
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| That there is something unique about us and our policies that separate us from the rest of the world. |
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| What informs US foreign policy? |
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| National interest, political principles, and prudence |
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| Constitutional Provisions and Foreign Policy |
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| The Supremacy Clause, Payment of Debts provision, Congress holds power to declare war and other war powers remain with the President, country's unification, alliances with foreign powers are limited |
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| War of 1812, WWI, Spanish-American War, Mexican-American War, WWII |
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| What is the US characterized by? |
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| Strong conventional and nuclear forces, educated population, significant resources and finances |
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| What are terrorist organizations characterized by? |
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| stealth, mobility, ability to hit and run, stateless (therefore, harder to track down) |
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| What did Charles de Gaulle demand as price for their alliance against USSR? |
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| 1954 battle crucial to the French decision to continue in Algeria. This horrible French defeat led to US involvement. |
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| (1890-1969) Head of the Vietnamese independence movement |
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| Vietnam effected which Presidential administrations? |
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| Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, & Ford |
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| Who was specifically crucial to Vietnam under the LBJ administration? |
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Undersecretary of State Ball - opponent to any escalation
Clark Gifford - chief opponent of escalation
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara - chief architect of the war |
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| Who are the 2 notable generals of Vietnam? |
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| General Westmoreland and General Abrams |
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| What was the turning point of Vietnam? |
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| Who were FDR's "four policemen"? |
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| Who used "policemen" concept first? |
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| Teddy Roosevelt, looking towards policing Latin America |
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| Europe stay out. West closed to colonies, only existing ones may stay. |
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| Speak softly and carry a big stick. |
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| Don't recognize Jap conquests as legit i.e. in China |
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| don't recognize commie efforts in Turkey and Greece |
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| Eisenhower Doctrine & Nixon Doctrine |
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| resistance to Soviet efforts to expand in le Middle East |
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| resist Soviet efforts in Persian Gulf |
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| US should resist commie efforts to topple various regimes, "roll-back" |
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| Yugoslavia. It's in the interest of US to use military force in humanitarian efforts |
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| US goes alone. We're not gonna sign onto other treaties (like Kyoto protocol) |
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| Professor Frank Klingberg said intervention is... |
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Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Alexander II |
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| Ultimate goal of Marxism? |
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| 3 principles of soviet foreign policy |
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| ideology, strategic defense, strategic offense |
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| slogan calling for a US continental republic |
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| What was manifest destiny made possible by? |
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| new technologies such as telegraph and railroad |
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| How did US shift from isolationists to a WORLD POWER? =] |
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| expansion of the US in Mexico, Cuba, Panama, & the Philippines |
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| 1935-1937 Neutrality Acts |
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| designed to keep us from war |
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| nations must expand/decline and sea power is key to expansion, a nation needs a strong navy, nation needs colonies as "coaling stations" to service her ships, Teddy R. followed this theory |
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| Roosevelt and Churchill wanted disarmament, self-determination for all nationalities and freedom of trade and seas, spiritual child of Wilson's 14 pts, formed basis of UN, NATO, and US-British cooperation |
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| 1947 call for massive aid to war-torn Europe |
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| US interests expand everywhere |
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| Mead's 4 Schools of US Foreign Policy |
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1. Hamiltonian
2. Wilsonian
3. Jeffersonian
4. Jacksonian |
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| Hamiltonian school of foreign policy |
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| commerce-oriented seeks to make US more secure and powerful by economic means promoting domestic prosperity and trade relations, strong in business and banking, try to avoid war but support it when pushed |
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