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Undergraduate 2
10/19/2011

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Negative Peace

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Simply the Lack of War or the absences of war, it is a condition where no active, organized military violence is taking place. “Lasting suspension of rivalry between political units”. Usually results in a diplomatic emphasis on peacekeeping or peace restoring
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Positive Peace

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Active engagement of the people trying to make their area better. Exploitation is minimized or eliminated and in which there is neither overt violence nor the more subtle phenomenon of underlining structural violence. Focuses on peace building the establishment of nonexploitative social structures and a determination to work towards that goal even when a war is not ongoing or imminent.
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Ideology

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A set of ideas according to which individuals make since of the world = a system of beliefs (page 192)
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Westphalia

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treaty from 1648 that began/ inaugurated the European state system that was eventually expanded into the modern network of nation states. The framework for states fragmenting and sovereignty/ autonomy
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Realpolitik

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The conduct of International affairs under the assumption that a states policy should be oriented toward and based on considerations of power and national security rather than on presumably “Utopian” ethical ideas. Politically speaking it requires policy makers to base decisions primarily on considerations of power and national self interest.
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Sovereignty
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The ability for a state to govern foreign policy
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Nation
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a Group of people united by birth, blood, history or culture
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Nationalism
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"I hate everyone else" Holding negative stereotypes and conceptions about other people and other countries. is associated with a closed belief system, it invokes celebration of ones group and the undermining of everyone else.-- As understood in the 1800's starting a revolution against an oppressor, many ethnic groups declared their independence and rose against their oppressors.
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De-humanization effect
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a perponent to group functioning= to give the impression to compatriots and, at least on a subconscious level, to oneself, that the othergroup members are not really, or fully, human at all. This is especially easy to do when the others are different because of language
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Irredentism
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a member of a party in any country advocating the acquisition of some region included in another country by reason of cultural, historical, ethnic, racial, or other ties.

-Is a position advocating annexation of territories/ land administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity or prior historical possession, actual or alleged. (WiKi deff)

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Reintegrationism
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linguist and cultural movement in Galicia which defends the unity of galacian and Portuguese as the same language
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Secessionism
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Yearnings of a group of people to secede from a larger collectivity of which they do not feel a part.
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