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| Nation | Abstract concepts that unite a people such as culture, language, religion, a common territory. |
| State | A political unit that has symbols of statehood such as a flag and governing institutions. |
| Power | The ability to get someone or a group to do something they would not otherwise do. |
| Three Ways Power is Generally Exercised | Persuasion;Incentive;Threat of Force |
| The ability of a state to make and enforce laws within its boundaries | Sovereignty |
| The event in Europe which ended the first round of religious conflict and established the modern nation-state system | Peace of Westphalia 1648 (Ended the Thirty Years War) |
| The last of the WWII great power conferences that Franklin Roosevelt attended in Feb. 1945 | Yalta (Issues discussed were the occupation of Germany, the war in the Pacific, the United Nations, and the division of Eastern Europe) |
| Greek Historian who wrote on the history of the Pelopponesian War | Thucydides |
| Chinese historian who discussed the political situtation in China. Wrote The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| English Philosopher who advocated the king should have total power to keep order in society | Thomas Hobbes |
| Institutions and processes which make and enforce laws in a state and have a monopoly of the use of force. | Government |
| The attempt at disarmament prior to World War I which largely failed. | Hague Conferences |
| The conflict which served to unite GErmany under the Prussian monarchy in 1871 | Franco-Prussian War |
| The author of the Prince who discussed the things that a king should do to take power. | Machiavelli |
| The German Officer who argued that war was a continuation of politics by other means. | Clausewitz |
| The Entente Powers allied with Great Britain prior to World War I were: | France and Russia |
| In the years prior to World War I Germany was allied with what two major powers | Austria-Hungary and Italy |
| The alliance established by the US after World War II against Soviet expansion in Europe | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| This leader was killed in Sarajevo and his murder led to the outbreak of World War I | Archduke Francis Ferdinand (We was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary) |
| The German plan which called for a quick strike against France before Russia could fully moblize its army. | The Schliffen Plan |
| The organiztion created after World War I to prevent war. | The League of Nations |
| The American President who developed the idea of 14 points for greater transparency in international relations and a peace without victors | Woodrow Wilson (It was his idea to create the League of Nations) |
| This officially ended hostility between Germany and the Entente Powers | Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| Threat to punish an actor if it takes a certain negative action. | Deterrence |
| Use of force or the threat of force or sanctions to get another actor to take some action. For example the U.S. forcing Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait in 1991 | Compellence |
| The lumping together of diverse issues in a negotiation. | Linkage |
| When a country decides on its own to take some action. | Unilateralism |
| When a country decides to take action internationally as part of a group or an organization. | Multilateralism |
| Realists argue that stability was maintained in the international system through a balance of power maintained by a fluid ______ system | Alliance |
| The attempt to place events in context of a more general pattern of behavior | Theory |
| The changing of a state's dominant ideology and political institutions quickly and suddenly. | Revolution |
| Realists scholars argue that there is no central authority in the international system and they describe this as | Anarchy |
| Process by which individuals and groups have their values adopted by the state. | Politics |
| The use of geography as an element of power and the ideas about it held by political leaders and scholars. | Geopolitics |
| A situation in which actions that states take to ensure their own security are perceived as threats to the security of other states. | Security Dilemma |
| An international system with typically five or six centers of power that are not grouped into alliances. | Multipolar System |
| Is one state's holding a preponderance of power in the international system allowing it to dominant the rules and arrangements by which international political and economic relations are conducted. | Hegemony |
| A theory that the largest wars result from challenges to the top position in the status hierarchy, when a rising poweris surpassing the most powerful state. | Power Transition Theory |
| A Soviet led Eastern European military alliance founded in 1955 and disbanded in 1991. It opposed NATO. | Warsaw Pact |
| A movement of third world states led by India and Yugoslavia that attempt to distance themselves from the US-Soviet rivalry. | Nonaligned Movement |
| Situation in which one actor's gain is by definition equal to the other's loss | Zero-Sum Game |
| In Foreign Policy the idea that certain military, economic, and political values are essential for the state is known as: | National Interest |
| The reorganization of the U.S. National Security establishment after WW II which among other things created the Dept. of Defense, The CIA, and separated the Air Force from the Army was: | The National Security Act of 1947 |
| The event from 1978-1981 where American diplomats were held hostage | The Iranian Hostage Crisis (It became a factor in the 1980 presidential election) |
| The leader of Iraq from the late 1970s-2003 and was the head of state during the Iran-Iraq War and Operation Desert Shield/Storm | Saddam Hussein |
| The attempt by developing countries in the 1970s to address their economic weakness relative to industrialized countries by advocated loan forgiveness, favorable trade benefits, and development aid. | The New International Economic Order (NIEO) |
| The idea that historically empires grow weak because they spend a great deal of resources on their militaries, thus weakening their economy and infrastructure was advanced by what historian? | Paul Kennedy (The Kennedy Thesis) |
