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| strong state vs weak state/organization |
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-Sustained armed conflict between two sovereign states
-On the decline recently |
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| War between government and one or more insurgent groups |
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| Internationalized Civil War |
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| Civil war with outside state(s) supporting insurgents |
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| Process where one becomes accustomed to beliefs, values, behaviors acceptable in a given society |
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| People's perception that they are unfairly deprived of wealth and status in comparison to others who don't deserve their wealth and status |
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| Two states agreeing on some things and disagreeing on others |
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| disagreements on some things are overlooked by stronger agreements on others |
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- Relatively stable hierarchy
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- War is likely during a raise or decline in power
- Huge war likely when numerous states raising/declining in power
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- Victims- civilians
- Actors: Subnational actors or clandestine agents
- Fear: Symbolic, show weakness, gain attention
- Target audience: politically motivated, influence policy/behavior
- Purpose: to gain media/widespread attention (to influence policy/behavior)
- seperatism, self-determination
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attacks on telecommunication network to decline target's defense, economic well being
Good example: estonia was greatly affected by information warfare |
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| Preemptive strikes on states supporting terrorist groups in order to prevent future attack on US |
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| state-sponsored terrorism |
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| assistance, training and arming of terrorists by a state in order to achieve foreign policy goals |
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| states in danger of collapsing due to internal strife |
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- ability to change wealth into military might
- considered non-military form of power
- requires stable leaders
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State's capabilities to influence
- Hard power- military strength
- Soft power- attractiveness influences
- Economic powers- Powerful sanctions
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| Cost of decisions- when something is gained, something is lost |
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| Military-industrial complex |
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| relationship between government, industry, and national military |
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| Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
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| international arms control agreement on nukes |
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| many nuclear missiles delivered by a single missile |
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| technology that makes bombs search for their target and detonate at a specific time to cause most damage |
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| psychological barrier between conventional and nuclear war |
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| expected freeze from dust fallout after nuclear weapons are used. Smoke/dust block out sun killing plant and animal life |
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| a threat of force, making enemy change ways against will |
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| game of chicken. threatening war in order to get submission from enemy. |
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| threat of responding to any attack with everything available |
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| countervalue targeting strategy |
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| pointing nukes at enemy's valued non-military resources |
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| counterforce targeting strategy |
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| aiming at enemy's military targets |
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| strategy to threaten retaliation unless ways are changed. |
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| ability to respond to nuclear attack with another, stronger, nuclear attack |
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| three forms of firing nukes. made sure there could be a second strike |
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| mutually assured destruction |
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| form of deterrence. both sides able to survive first strike and retaliate. |
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| Nuclear Utilization Theory |
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| NUTs. Deterrence/nuclear threats more credible if proliferation were easier. |
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| Strategic Defense Initiative |
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| Space based lasers that will destroy enemy nukes. Never happened. |
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| quick strike, kill before they can retaliate. (similar to blitzkrieg) |
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| war to make sure enemy can't attack sometime in the future. |
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flexing military might to persuade domestic change.
1. gunboat diplomacy- naval strength
2. Tomahawk diplomacy- shooting cruise missiles
3. military intervention- limited armed force
4. Economic coercion- sanctions |
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| final demand. "do it or face punishment." |
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| state's secret means to achieve specific goals in other countries |
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| form of coercion by using economic strategies to exercise influence over policies |
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Verb: Actively joining alliances to create equilibrium
Noun: State of equilibrium
Benefit: peace |
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agreement among sovereign states to join together to increase mutual security
(stalin-roosevelt-churchill) |
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| influential state that supports weaker side in order to balance hegemon |
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joining with the more powerful state regardless of ideology or form of gov't
dangerous: hegemon could easily crush you |
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| hegemonic stability theory |
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| hegemon required to maintain rules, keep the peace. (US expected to intervene in sudan because we are hegemon) |
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| great powers jointly managing international relations |
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| 2+ states agreements to contain arms buildup. (not getting more) |
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| agreement to reduce or eliminate weapons |
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| threats to deter an attack on its allies |
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