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| a narrative description showing how some hypothetical future state of affairs might evolve out of the present one |
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| people who flee for safety to another country because of a well-founded fear of persecution |
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| a policy that singles out states that support terrorist groups and advocates military strikes against them to prevent a future attack on the United States |
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| the concept in decision making theories that when the occasion arises to use resources, what is gained for one purpose is lost for other purposes, so that every choice entails the cost of some lost opportunity |
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| an international agreement that seeks to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons by prohibiting further nuclear weapons sales, acquisitions, or production |
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| Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) |
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| a system of deterrence in which both sides posses the ability to survive a first strike and launch a devastating retaliatory attack. In terms of the cold war, this means a NUCLEAR retaliation |
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| a quick first strike attack that seeks to defeat an adversary before it can organize a retaliatory response |
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| a war undertaken to preclude an adversary from acquiring the capability to attack in the future |
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| the use of threats or limited armed force to persuade an adversary to alter its foreign and/or domestic policies |
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| a demand that contains a time limit for compliance and a threat of punishment for resistance |
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| a process by which members of a group of people assert the "inferiority" of another group through subtle or overt acts or statements |
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| The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a position |
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| Policy of withdrawing from active participation with other actors in world affairs and instead concentrating state efforts on managing internal affairs |
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| an international system with more than two dominant power centers |
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| an international system with two dominant power centers |
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| metaphor popular during the Cold War that predicted if one state "fell" to communism, its neighbors would also fall in a chain reaction |
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| The tendency for weak states to seek alliances with the strongest power, irrespective of that power's ideology or form of government, in order to increase its own security |
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| declaration that says that U.S. would use intervention to support allies of U.S. against external subjugation |
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| a strategy to prevent another state from using force to extend its sphere of influence |
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| a strategy of relaxing tensions between adversaries to reduce the possibility of war |
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| a pledge of U.S. backing for anticommunist insurgents who sought to overthrow Soviet-supported governments |
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| in diplomacy, a policy seeking to reestablish normal relations between enemies |
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| a term used to refer to the world's wealthy, industrialized countries located primarily in the northern hemisphere |
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| a term used to designate the less-developed countries located primarily in the southern hemisphere |
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| the rule of a region by an external sovereign power |
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| a view of development asserting that the leading capitalist states dominate and exploit the poorer countries on the periphery of the world economy |
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| the premeditated use or threat of violence perpetrated against noncombatants, usually intended to induce fear in a wider audience |
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