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INR2002 Chapter 10 Vocabulary
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International Studies
Undergraduate 3
04/12/2011

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transnational advocacy network TAN
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a set of individuals and nongovernmental organizations acting in pursuit of normative objective
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nongovenrmental organizations NGO
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private orgainzations not directly affiliated with national governments and usually focusing on social, economic, and political change in a country or region
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norms
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standards of behavior for actors with a given identity; norms define what actions are "right" or appropriate under particular circumstances
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norms life cycle
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a three stage model of how norms diffuse within a population and achieve a "taken for granted" status
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boomerang model
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a process through which NGOs in one state are able to activate transnational linkages to bring pressure from other states on their own governments
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terrorism
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the use or threatened use of violence "against noncombatant targets" by individuals or nonstate groups for political ends
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extremists
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actors whose interests are not widely shared by others; individuals or groups that are politically weak relative to the demands they make
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coercion
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a strategy that induces policy change by imposing or threatening to impose costs, usually pain or other harm, on the target
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provocation
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a strategy of terrorist attacks intended to provoke the target government into making a disproportionate response that alienates moderates in the terrorists' home society or in other sympathetic audiences
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spoiling
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a strategy of terrorist attacks intended to sabotage a prospective peace between the target and moderate leadership from the terrorists' home society
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outbidding
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a strategy of terrorist attacks designed to demonstrate a capability for leadership and commitment relative to another, similar terrorist group
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