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| theory that world oil output has reached its maximum and will decline |
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| underground water-bearing layer |
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| changes that come and go, like a pendulum swing |
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| Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, pipeline from Azerbaijan through Georgia to the Turkish coast. |
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| Country along and with rights to a river |
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| long-term change that goes only one way |
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| narrow band south of Sahara, arid but not yet desert |
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| market-based system to incentivize cutting CO2 emissions |
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| 42 gallons, world standard measure for oil |
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| related to world as a whole, too big for one country or group of countries to handle |
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| something that all use free, such as air |
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| the sum total of a group's learned behavior |
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| rich-country dominance by indirect, economic means |
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| weber's theory that religion first ignited capitalism |
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| industrialization modernizes whole society, paving way for democracy |
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| gross domestic product; sum total of goods and services produced in one year; measure of prosperity |
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| resettling from one country to another |
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| average number of babies per woman |
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| business and political transactions open to public view |
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| to move production overseas |
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| permission to remain in host country for those fleeing persecution |
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| transactions off the books, the black market |
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| proving that one thing causes another |
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| close-ups of individual and small-group behavior |
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| extremely conservative; seeks returning to old ways |
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| big, panoramic view of state interactions |
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| tendency of wars to get bigger and fiercer |
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| out of balance, as when one country has more power than another |
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| competition between rival countries to build more weapons |
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| in kissinger's theory, IR system in which accept each other's right to exist |
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| in kissinger's theory,IR system in which a major state seeks to overthrow others |
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| transient, short-term economic downturn |
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| how much one currency buys of another |
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| 1944 agreement to fix exchange rates to the dollar backed by gold |
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| one currency buys a varying number of other currencies, depending on the market for them |
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| international monetary fund |
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| makes loans to stabilize currencies |
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| makes loans to lift up poor countries |
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| unexamined but widely believed assumptions |
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| artificial currency the IMF uses to make loans |
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| risky home loan, one with no money down |
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| UN-related body, successor to GATT, promotes free trade |
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| Pre- Adam Smith economic theory that large gold holdings make a nation rich |
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| theory of some nations that big trade surpluses make them rich |
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| major, long-term political warfare within a state |
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| dramatic replacement of one regime by another |
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| swift replacement of leadership, usually by military forces |
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| what happens inside one country (as opposed to interstate, among countries) |
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| theory that unequal wealth motivates underdog groups |
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| nationality of ethnic group scattered among several countries |
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| outside powers pursue their interest by aiding foreign forces |
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| collective-action problem |
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| getting all to sacrifice in a common cause |
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| relies on expenditure of others to avoid paying fair share |
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| group bound by ties of language, religion, custom, or national origin |
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| one obtained coercively through crime or civil war |
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