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| sustained armed confict between two or more soverign states |
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| armed conflict within a country between the central government and one or more insurgent groups, sometimes referred to as internal war. |
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| Internationalized civil war |
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| an armed conflict between the central government of a country and isurgents with outside intervention by at least one other sate in support of the insurgents. |
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| The processes by which people learn the belief, values, and behaviors that are acceptable in a given society. |
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| People's perceptions that they are unfaily deprived of wealth and status in comparison to others who are advantaged but not more deserving. |
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| a situtation where politically relevant divisions between international actors are contradictory, with their interests pulling them together on some issues and separating the of others. |
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| A situation where politically relevant divisions between international actors are complementary; interests pulling them apart on one issue are reinforce by interests that also separate them on other issues |
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| the contention that war is likely when a dominanat great power is threatned by the rapid growth of a rival's capabilities, which reduces the diference in their relative power. |
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| the contention that armed conflict is probable when a state passes through certain critical points along a generalized curve of relative power, and wars of enormous magnitude are likely when several great powers pass through critical points at approximately the same time. |
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| armed conflict between belligerents of vastly unequal military strength, in which the weaker side is often a nonstate actor that relies on unconventional tactics. |
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| the premeditated use of threat of violence perpetrated against noncombatants, usually intended to induce fear in a wider audience. |
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| attacks on an adversary's telecommunications and computer networks to degreade the techonological systems vital to its defense and economic well-being. |
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| State-sponsored terrorism |
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| formal assistance, training, and arming of foreign terrorists by a state in order to achieve foreign policy goals. |
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| states in danger of political collapse due to overwhelming internal strife. |
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