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IR HOOS
HMD
Question | Answer |
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Conflict | Armed conflict |
truth commissions | was used to hear honest testimony from the dehumanizing atrocities. offer participants asylum from punishment |
nationalism | devotion to ones nation over another |
ethnic groups | large groups of people who share ancestral/cultural/religious/common identity |
genocide | killing one ethnic/religious group |
ethnocentrism | tendency to see ones own group as good and others as bad |
islam | the religion practiced by muslims, with many different sects |
islamist groups | want base govt on islamic law |
territorial waters | waters within three miles of the shore of a state |
irredentism | regaining lost territory |
airspace | the air space above a state belongs to that state |
counterinsurgency | trying to win over the population so the will stop sheltering guerrilla fighter |
power projections | ie aircraft carries, can be used to send a threat of using force anywhere in the world |
Electronic warfare | use of electromagnetic spectrum during warfare and attempting to not let the enemy use theirs |
state sponsored terrorism | terrorism supported by state actors |
fissionable materials | uranium and plutonium |
ballistic missiles | extremely difficult to defend against |
intercontinental | missiles that can be sent more than 5000 miles |
missile technology control regime | attempting to limit the missile technology in the south |
chemical weapons convention | all chemical weapons have been banned 1992 |
NON PROLIFERATION TREATY | controls the spread of nuclear materials and expertise through out the world |
Strategic defense initiative | us program to create ballistic defense |
comprehensive test ban treaty | no more nuclear testing after 1996 |
military govt | in the south, where military is the only institution in the country |
civil military relations | the division of labor between civilians and military causes tension |
little boy | dropped on hiroshima |
fat man | dropped on nagasaki |
hedley bull | does order exist in world politics? no it cant |
information screens | subconsciously only letting in certain info |
justification efforts | put so much into it you can't back out now |
jervis | dm fit incoming info into their theories |
jervis 2 | 2 mistakes. not changing a view because of conflicting info and being willing to do it |
post modernism | denies the existence of a single fix reality |
deconstruct | take apart to find hidden meanings |
five nuclear powers in the 50/60 | us russia china france uk |