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| Humanitarian Intervention |
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| a state/IGO uses force against sovereignty to defend human rights. |
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| Nuclear Weapons, biological weapons, radiological dispersal devices, chemical weapons. |
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| Unique destructive capabilities; derive their explosive power from nuclear fission or fusion |
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| Radiological dispersal devices |
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| combine explosive with radioactive material; cause radiation related illness, but not mass destruction |
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| use of microorganisms or toxins derived from organisms to cause disease in humans, plants or animals |
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| use of toxic properties of vaiours chemical compounds to kill, injure or incapacitate |
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| in the same state; the rise and fall of the amount and quality of WMD |
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| selling of weapons to other states |
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| Foreign direct investment |
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| getting foreign companies to invest into developing countries |
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| used to olevel the int'l playing field; plan from lesser develoed countries to commit to 0.7% of developed countries to development |
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| Neo-imperialism(colonialism) |
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| relates to the dependency theory; inequality b/t North and South |
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| a strategy (dependency theory) to protect domestic industries: high tariffs causes high prices leading to buying domestic. Low domestic subsidies |
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| using open resources til depletion; overusage |
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| liberal conceptt: encouraged to grow by exporting more goods. |
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| Types of weapons, end of the cold war, more inner-country wars. civilian:military deaths ratio |
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| states that everyone who has nuclear weapons redues, those who don't commit to not having, and the transfer of nuclear technology to developing countries |
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| trends in population growth |
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| rapid growth, moreso in developING countries. |
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| measures how wealth a country is and how the wealth is generated |
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| Measures of economic development |
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| GDP, inflation, unemployment, economic structurue, demographics |
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| measures extent to which ppl have access to wealth, jobs, kowledge, nutrition, health, leisure, safety and politial/cultural freedom |
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| Measures of Human Development |
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| Life expectant, infant mortality rate, poverty indicies, access to basic services (health/education), male:female, gov't spending priority |
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| supply and demand, comparative advantage, free trade, trickle-down affect. minimal gov't and max capital investment |
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| assets that determine the positon of a state relative to its peers in the int'l system. Example = geography, population, military |
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| general population of a state along w/ its ability to achieve int'l out comes thru persuation rather than military force |
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| disproportinate capability of weak states and non-state actors to challenge powerful states; use of terrorism |
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| Liberal economics = problem. Inequality b/t North and South is neo-imperalism. problems due to misdistribution of wealth & power |
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| Solution of Dependency Theory |
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| slef-determination, economic growth through wealth re-distribution and greater role for governments. |
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| Strategies of Dependency Theory |
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| Industrilization, public funding, tariffs. Examples = import substitution and NIEO |
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| (problems according to)Participatory Development |
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| excessive emphasis on industrilization. blind faith in industrial technology; misdistribution of wealth and power. |
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| Goal of Participatory Devel. |
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| quality of life improvements by meeting basic needs |
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| Strategies of Participatory Gov't |
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| Emphasize local decision-making to allow self-sufficiency and change to become permanent. Utilize available technology; labor intensive, but less costly |
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| Strategies of Liberal Economix |
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| Industrilization, private funding, free trade, trickle-down effect |
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| pessimistic. Human reproduction drive will result in overpopulation and lead to poverty and war. Solution = abstinence. |
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| Optimistic. Technology will lead to new food sources. Market forces will lead to better resource management. Greater population = solution b/c more ppl = more economic devel. = economic growth. |
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| Demographic transition model |
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| growth will balance itself out as states/societies modernize. Not universally applicable |
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| the increase in the urban share of total. concentration of poverty, slum growth, and social disruption, but no country in this industrial age has grown w/o it |
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| Specific limit on CFC emissions to reduce depletion of ozone; includes trade restrictions as an enforcement. Successful |
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| General limit on greehouse gas emissions to reduce global warming. Cost share requirments. Was not very successful. |
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| development-descruction dilemna |
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| environmental destruction in name of development. |
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| NGOs pay 3rd world countries debt in return, the country uses funds to protect the rainforest or other plans |
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| diplomacy and traty obligations; focuses primarily on horizontal preventions |
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| military prep to reduce and protect |
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| national economies geared more toward development than environment protection. |
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| a system where the dominant group controls the political and economic lives of another group of people |
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| if one country has a lower relative cost in producing a certain commodity, then it is to the advantage of all countries that that country can specialize |
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