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| Concerned with the interaction of states |
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| Ended thirty years of war among various groups of princes, and between political leaders and the Catholic Church |
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| Political unit composed of people, a well-defined territory, and a set of governing institutions |
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| Recognized by other states as having the exclusive right to make its own domestic and foreign policies. An independent actor in world politics |
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| Systems of values, beliefs, and ideas |
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| A group of people who have strong emotional, cultural, linguistic, religious, and historical ties |
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| Emphasis on states as the dominant, almost exclusive, actors in world politics |
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| General purpose is to describe, explain, and predict how humans behave or how things work in the real world |
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| Organizations that are not formally associated with governments |
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| Focuses on Seven categories of threats: 1) Economic security 2) Food " 3) Health " 4) Environmental " 5) Personal " 6) Community 7) Political " |
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| Political issues and activities by states and nonstate actors that extend across national boundaries and carry implications for most of the world |
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| Set of basic values that are increasingly common to human societies |
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| How globalization intertwines many aspects of human activities |
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| Emphasizes the study of ancient Greek and Hebrew texts; concentrated on the Bible |
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| Re-birth; Evolved in Italy in the fourteenth century and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times |
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| (1397-1468) invented the printing press around 1436 |
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| (1483-1546) Professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg who had been motivated to act by the campaign for selling indulgences |
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| (1530-1596) French social and political philosopher and lawyer |
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| French protestants who were followers of John Calvin |
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| An international system of rules created to govern the interaction of states and to establish order |
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| (1583-1645) Dutch lawyer, author, strong advocate of natural law, and the father of international law |
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| Common european currency established by the European Union |
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| French statesman and distinguished economist |
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| French prime minister after World War II who proposed the Schuman plan for pooling the coa and steel resources of Western Europe |
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| Foreign minister of Belgium who was elected first president of the General Assembly of the United Nations |
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| Established the European Economic Community as an economic alliance |
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| European Court of Justice |
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| A judicial arm of the European Union, based on Luxembourg |
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| Organizations that are not part of a government |
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| A compromise between the Vatican and the Italian government |
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| Italian Fascist dictator and prime minister from 1922 to 1943 |
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| British East Inda Company |
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| Established under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I for the purposes of spice tradin; it launched British rule of India |
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| Trading and colonizing company, chartered by the States-General of the Dutch Republic in 1621 and organized in 1623 |
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| A political and economic situation in which two states are simultaneously dependent on each other for their well-being |
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| The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders |
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| The hostile relations between the two superpowers, the United States, and the Soviet Union, from 1945-1990 |
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| Financial Market Expansion |
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| The global expansion of national markets |
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| Free trade, open markets, and competition in the world economy |
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| A post-World War II arrangement for managing the world economy; its main components are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund |
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| A UN agency that deals with monetary aid transfers to developing nations, usually via a loan program varying from nation to nation |
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| Established in 1944 to prevent countries from defaulting on their loans and to make financing available |
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| The process of European banks accepting dollars and not changing them into national currency |
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| Formed by major oil-producing nations in response to the control of the world oil market by seven major oil companies |
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| The proliferation of international and regional organizations composed of states and the spread of nonstate political actors |
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| Multilateral Institutions |
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| Organizations composed of many states pursuing common objectives |
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| National policies of one country are intertwined with those of other countries |
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| International institutions designed to regulate the behavior of their members |
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| Collective actions taken to establish international institutions and norms to deal with national and global issues |
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| Networks of military force that operate internationally |
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| The spread of one culture across national borders |
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| Environmental globalization |
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| The interdependence of countries to work together to solve environmental problems |
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| Belief that industrialized countries benefit from the present capitalist economic system at the expense of poor countries |
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| Act that brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level in the history of the United States |
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| Stresses that the distribution-of-power changes in countries will rise and fall |
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| The leading country in an international system |
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| The international system that includes several hegemons, dominant states, or great powers |
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| The international system that includes two hegemons, dominant states, or great powers |
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| The international system that has only one hegemon, dominant state, or great power |
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| The ability to get others--individuals, groups, or nations--to behave in ways that they ordinarily wouldnt |
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| Measures the total market value of all goods and services produced by resources supplied by residents and businesses of a particular country, regardless of where the residents and residents businesses are located |
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| Measures the total market value of all goods and services produced within a country |
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| The capacity to change potential power, as measured by available resources, into realized power, which is determined by the changed behavior of others |
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| The possession of economic resources, military power, technology, and other sources of power that enable a small group of countries to shape the international system |
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| The ability to determine the rules, principles, procedures, and practices that guide the behavior of members of the global community |
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| The ability to seize opportunities to build or reorient the global system, apart from the distribution of power and the building of institutions |
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| The pressure on resources that leads countries to expand beyond their boundaries |
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| A factor that enables some countries to enhance their power while that of other countries declines |
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| A term used to stress the dangers of excessive pride and arrogance |
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| Lippmann Gap (Imperial overstretch) |
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| The disparity between the global ambitions of countries and their resources to fulfill those ambitions |
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| Created by European powers to prevent one country from gaining so much power that it would dominate the others |
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| A strategy that attempts to prevent ambitious powers from expanding and destroying order and balance in the international system |
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| Attempts to control rising states by embedding them in alliances |
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| Efforts to minimize conflict with challengers |
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| Jingoistic tenet that the US expansion is reinforced through God's will |
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| (1846-1848) Resulted in U.S aquisition of two fifths of Mexico's territory, including California and the present American southwest |
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| War between Spain and the United States (1898) |
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| The statement of US policy made by president James Monroe in 1823 that resulted in diminished European involvement in the Americas |
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| International alliance created in 1920 to promote international peace and security |
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| Bombed by Japanese submarines and carrier-based planes in 1941 |
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| Collective benefits, such as security, stability, open markets, and economic opportunities |
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| Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation |
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| Chinese-Russian alliance designed to challenge the U.S. framework for international security |
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| Stategy of counteracting the dominant power of hegemon through unorthodox ways |
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| Group of oil-exporting states that collaborate to elevate their export power |
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