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MIDTERM TWO - INT'L POLITICS
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International Studies
Undergraduate 2
11/03/2008

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Three Cores of Liberalism
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Social/Individual, Political, Economic
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Liberalism is married to...
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free trade
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Theory of democratic peace
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The theory that its not in the interest of democratic states to go to war with each other
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Complex Interdependence
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The neo-liberal construct of a conflict free system -where national boundaries exists along interdependence
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Regime
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sets of implicit principles around which expectations converge within international policitcs
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Reification
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the reducing of humans into things -workers -widgets
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two tiers to the vanguard
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-intellectuals, -the party
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Cell Structure
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provides leadership that can't be penetrated by the police (democratic centralism)
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united front strategy
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communists must start by joining all disaffected elements of the old regime -follow 1st rev with a seconds so you stay intact and throw out any other rev forces
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nationalism
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a feeling of contemporary we-ness based off a common background of shared experiene
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social fantasy
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the creation of myths (history) to render the person willing to die for their country -making the people powerful
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Tribalism
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totems and taboos, totem -the visual symbol of the group invested with power
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ethnic crystalization
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groups developing their own identities apart from the nation they belong to - carved out of existing states
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ethnie
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a named human population with a myth of common ancestry shared memories and cultural elements and a link with a historic territory or homeland and a measure of solidarity
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empire
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the organized and autocratic power -an authority that transcends natural unities of one community controlling others
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neo-empire
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any nation's effective control or domination or influence direct or indirect of any one country over another
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hegemons
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realists entities grounded on realism
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monroe doctrine
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policy of US for all foreigns to keep out of the Western Hemisphere -out of bounds for European geo-political exchanges - and the US in return will stay out of the balance of power euro politics
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new level of analysis
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Bureaucratic politics!
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MAD
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mutual assured destruction
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NUTS
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nuclear utilization theories
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star wars
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strategic defense initiative works if its married to a first strike strategy
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