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2. World Affairs
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| international relations | interactions among countries |
| power | ability of one country to get another to do its building |
| superpower | nation with for more power than others and the ability to wage many kinds of war nearly everywhere |
| reification | mistaking a theory for reality |
| force | application of military power |
| sovereignty | concept that each state rules its territory |
| state | country or nation, has sovereignty |
| supernational | power above the national level, as in the UN |
| hierarchy of power | theory that peace is preserved when states know where they stand on a ladder of relative power |
| balance of power | states form alliances to offset threatening states |
| bipolar system | the world divided into 2 power centers, as in the Cold War |
| multipolar system | the world divided into many power centers |
| globalization | the world turning into one big, integrated capitalist market |
| stratified | power distributed in layers |
| counterweight | many smmall power centers coming together to oppose a large power center |
| unipolar system | one power center |