| A | B |
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| alliance | friendship or partnership between nations |
| ambassador | an official representative of a country's government |
| domestic policy | government decisions related to what happens inside a country's borders |
| foreign policy | government decisions related to what happens outside of a country's borders |
| embargo | an agreement among a group of nations to stop trading with a target nation |
| Secretary of State | the head of the State Department, responsible for foreign affairs |
| nongovernmental organization | an organization that operates independently of any government body |
| treaty | a formal agreement between nations |
| economic sanctions | financial penalties or punishments aimed at a target nation |
| neutral | taking no side in a conflict or disagreement |
| terrorism | the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims |
| diplomacy | the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad |
| diplomat | an official representing a country abroad |
| war | a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state |
| peacekeeping | the active maintenance of a truce between nations or communities, especially by an international military force |
| humanitarian action | to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity during and in the aftermath of man-made crises and natural disasters, as well as to prevent and strengthen preparedness for the occurrence of such situations |
| United Nations | Organization established after World War II to promote cooperation among nations of the world |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement between U.S., Canada, and Mexico |
| national interest | anything that benefits or helps the country |
| executive agreement | an agreement between the president and the leader of another country |
| global interdependence | the reliance of people and countries on one another for goods and services |
| trade war | economic conflict that occurs when one or more nations put up trade barriers to punish another nation for trade barriers it first erected against them |
| less developed nation | a nation with a low per capita GDP |
| deforestation | the removal of trees over large areas |
| gross domestic product | the value of all of the goods and services produced in a nation in one year |
| per capita GDP | a nation's annual GDP divided by population, a measure of how effectively a nation uses its resources |
| prisoner of war | a person captured by opposing forces during a conflict |
| human right | a basic freedom that all people should have simply because they are human |
| repression | preventing people from expressing themselves or from freely engaging in normal life |
| communism | a one-party system of government based on the ideas of state ownership of property and government direction of the economy |
| weapon of mass destruction | a weapon that can kill or harm large numbers of people and damage a large area |
