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Global Issues Test 1
Professor Johnson
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Undergraduate 1
04/01/2014

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Elements of Power
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include a country's geographic area and location, its population, and its natural resources.
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Containment
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attempts to balance ambitious powers from expanding and destroying order and balance in the international system
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Manifest Destiny
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is the belief that the expansion of the United States was God's will
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Pearl Harbor
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was bombed in World War II, prompting the United States to reluctantly enter the war.
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Urbanization
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has usually been associated with freedom and innovation.
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Economic Power
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is seen as the foundation of military and political power.
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Unipolar
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The disintegration of the Soviet Union created a ________ world, dominated by the United states
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Democratic Enlargement
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is a prominent strategy that leading powers adopt to preserve their position in the international system.
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China
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is viewed as a major challenger to America's dominance of the global system.
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Concert of Europe
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Following Napoleon's defeat in 1815, european powers created the________ to maintain stability by preserving a relatively equal distribution of power among them.
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They associate it with America
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Most countries that resist globilization do so because ____________.
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Political Globilization
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The acceptance of states, relative power of states, and the spread of nonstate actors can be characterized as__________.
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Term Nation-State
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The linking of ideologies with emotional, cultural, linguistic, and religious ties is evidence in the____________.
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The spread of the English language
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was the force that has most helped facilitate the spread of globilization.
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The Retreat into nationalism and protectionism that followed it.
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The third wave of globilization is distinguished from the waves that followed by ______________.
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Excluding other states from government affairs within a given territory.
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Westphalian sovereignty focuses on_____________________.
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Powerful states and economic division are afforded more significance
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What is one thing that distinguishes the skeptical analysis of globilization from the analysis of the weak globalizers?
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Establishing a European Economic Alliance
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The Treaty of Rome contributed to the formation of the European Union by _______________.
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By granting access to information that promoted European independence from the Catholic Church.
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Johan Gutenberg's innovation contribute to the modernization of Europe _______________________.
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Greenpeace and Amnesty International
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Advocacy organizations are a type of NGO that include_______________.
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The decline of Westphalin Sovereignty
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The rise of global interdependence has been accompanied by___________.
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Universal Rights
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The Ancient Greek philosophers known as Stoics developed the idea of ____________.
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ICESCR's focus on positive rights favored by the Soviet Union.
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The characteristic of the International Covenant on Economic,Social, and Cultural Rights(ICESCR) that distinguishes it from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is the_________.
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Stress the importance of collective identities
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The implementation of human rights has been impeed in cultures that__________.
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The Helsinki Final Act
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was established in 1975 to implement civil and political righta throughout Europe, especially in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
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Utilizing a hard system of human rights implementation
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The United States issues a political sanction against a country that has committed a human rights violation. Indoing so, the United States is_________________.
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Demanding justice for rape during times of war
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What action has been cited as proof of the growth of humanitarian international law?
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Even isolated incidences of human rights violations are seen as evidence of Islamic countries' inability to respect human rights.
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The prevalent stereotype of Islam as a repressive religion is problematic particularly because_______________________.
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Inflaming passions and escalating terrorism
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In the fight against terrorism, inhumane treatment of detainees and excessive military force have sometimes had the consequence of______________.
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Europeans will not extradite people to America if they face the death penalty
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Which of the following developments reflects the growing iunternational consensus on the death penalty?
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