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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Who was leader of the revolutionist faction that opposed the Versailles treaty without revisions?

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Henry Cabot lodge

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2
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” all motives reduced to one requiring via carrots and sticks”

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Hans morgenthau

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3
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Who reject a moral equivalence?

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Neoconservatives

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4
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Who wrote the Geographic Pivot of History?

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Halford Mackinder

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5
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Silk Road

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A 4000 mile long network of trade routes between China and the west that dates back before 115 CB

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Tamerlane

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Turkic-Mongol descendent of ghengis khan who ruled an empire from the Caucasian through Persia to India

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7
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Iranian and Turkish plateau

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A. Persons and Turks
B. Pivotal position between east and west
C. Strategic location atop scarce water supplies allows them to dominate the Arabs
D. Iranian and Turkish practice of Islam differs substantially from that of the Arabs

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8
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Fertile Crescent

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A. Irrigated areas.
B. Marsh Arabs
C. Sunni Arabs
D. Kurds
E. The clash of empires has been the history of this land
F. No longer agriculturally self-sufficient

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9
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Who was ruled by the family Ibn Saud?

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Abd-al-Wahhab and the Wahhabi tribes of Nejd

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10
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What is Africa’s largest producer of goods and services?

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South Africa

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11
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Rimlands

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Named by Nicholas Spokane in contrast to the heartland corresponding more to mackinders outer or insular crescent than to the inner or marginal crescent

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12
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Who is the leading export of food?

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US and ananda

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13
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No way of life ever survives what?

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Death of original ideas

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14
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ghazals

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Incorporated raiders, mercenaries

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15
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Dar al Harb

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Abode of war

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16
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Who wrote oriental despotism?

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Karl wittfogel

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17
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What is used in lieu of war?

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Indirect strategies

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18
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European electoral politics

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A mere overlay on the relationship between the state bureaucracy and its clients

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19
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Today’s three schools

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Liberal internationalist

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20
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what presidents speeches provided the enduring summary of the views of liberal internationalism?

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Woodrow Wilson

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21
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what are the views of liberal internationalism?

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that America is destined to lead the world to peace and democracy that all mankind supposedly desires,by intervening in quarrels in and between foreign nations, by fostering modernization, by transferring power from nations to international institutions, and by exemplary disarmament.

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22
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realists

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took the balance of power approach, rational choice theory and game theory, academic canon, reflexive harmonizations of US interests with those of adversaries, Kissinger noted that america paid the same price for defeat as for victory.

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23
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judeo-christian civilization

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a. self-questioning
b. world’s greatest struggles have taken place within it
c. local factors’
d. revolutionary movements
e. desire to remake the world
f. modern environmentalism

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24
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how did Machiavelli contrast between despotism and oligarchy?

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distinction between Turkish empire and feudal France.

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25
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who wrote History of the Peloponnesian War?

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Thucydides

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26
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jus gentium

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law of nations

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27
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who was to be a defensor pacis?

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each prince in roman empire

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28
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diplomati

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medieval negotiators

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29
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system of mutual recognition

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a. assumption: European epicenter consists of sovereign homogeneous nation-states
b. universal extension of the system
c. recognition of sovereignty extended to ex-colonies and non-colonies
d. ethnic conflicts challenge most sovereignties from within

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30
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what has ruled since the days of Charlemagne?

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Christian canon and customary law

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31
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who drew on the jus gentium?

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Hugo Grotius and Emmerich de Vattel

32
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what is the essence of international law (archaic system of states)?

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sovereign autonomy

33
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elihu root

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system of arbitration enforced by consensus of the dominant christian nations

34
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Versailles Peace Conference

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birth of unnatural, unsustainable entities, more nations with less in common

35
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what did the UN betray?

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a. inclusion of the soviet union as one of the UN’s pillars
b. open admissions policies
c. the requirement that a country have a de facto government was dropped

36
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elevation of Yasser Arafat

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a. UN recognized Arafat’s (personal) sovereignty over the Palestinian authority
b. lowering of standard for membership
c. prevailing hypocrisy in today’s UN

37
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who pushed for western “reparations” or transfer of resources?

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Soviets

38
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what is the concrete art of balancing means and ends?

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strategy

39
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what is an “ensemble of continued pursuits, of decisions matured, of measures brought to terms”?

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policy

40
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what is the content of the messages it conveys?

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diplomacy

41
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what is no substitute for ordinary tools of statecraft?

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soft power

42
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what is Joseph Nye’s notion of soft power?

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“supposes that a nation’s innocuousness and propensity to pleas are attractive enough to reduce or eliminate the need for statecraft”

43
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“prestige is having a reputation for power, for gravitas”?

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Hans Morgenthau

44
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contempt

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incapacity or unwillingness to protect friends and put enemies out of action breeds contempt

45
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limits of bribary

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it is easier to buy foreign leaders than to make them stay bought

46
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sanctions

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cannot force compliance with demands that would damage the regime or its important objectives

47
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who was made pensioners of Louis XIV?

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members of the English court

48
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three facts about subversion

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a. all societies have internal divisions
b. wise statesmen leverage their contacts in foreign camps
c. success depends upon the target’s susceptibility

49
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who fled to Guatemala in 1954?

A

Jacobo Arbenz

50
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who was indecisive at the Bay of Pigs in 1961?

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JFK

51
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what is the ultimate test of statesmanship?

A

choosing and managing war and peace.

a. war is chief midwife in the birth and death of nations
b. war is always mother of life and death for all participant nations

52
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kinds of war

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tribal
limited
civilizational

53
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strategic objects

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a. cold war: soviet union vs. the west
b. phony war: 1939-1940 no intention of freeing Poland
c. Germans Blitzkrieg and the Battle of Britain

54
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what did Russia gain from invasion of Georgia??

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a. acquisition of Black Sea base
b. discouraged building the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
c. put pressure on Ukraine

55
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role of US navy?

A

mistress of western pacific

56
Q

who is a salafist sect?

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Wahhabis

57
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who is a secular national socialist?

A

Ba’ath party

58
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what is the Iran-created Shi’ite party of God in Lebanon?

A

Hezbollah

59
Q

What country uses referendum?

A

Switzerland

60
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who was part of the monroe doctrine?

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John Quincy Adams

61
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how did he explain the Monroe doctrine?

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peaceful commerce with all nations, and good wishes to all regardles of their governance or culture. to avoid foreign interference in our affairs, Americans would mind their own domestic business

62
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who supported the kellog-briand pact?

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Herbert hoover, Gerald nye, William borah

63
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what did the kellog-briand pact do?

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outlawed war and committed america to punish violators of the pact

64
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what gave birth to the modern international system?

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westphalia treaties

65
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what has been instruments of ideological war against judeo-christian civilization?

A

UN human rights panels

66
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each nation is equal only in its sovereign right to do what?

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to judge what it owes and what is owed

67
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what in the first world war killed more Germans than did the allies on all fronts?

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the starvation blockade

68
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who led the revolutionary coalition of 1979 in the name of Shia Islam’s most learned clerics- conservative, aristocratic figures not very interested in politics?

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

69
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What country is a democracy?

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Only Switzerland. Because they settle all serious issues by referendum

70
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What ended the wars of the reformation by pledging noninterference? in international affairs

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The treaty of Westphalia in 1649

71
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Who wrote Six Books of the Republic?

A

Jean Bodin

72
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Who explained that sovereignty, these kings already recognized no authority higher than their own?

A

Jean Bodin

73
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Who wrote On Laws of War and Peace?

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Hugo Grotius

74
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Who wrote Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law?

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Emmetics de Vattel

75
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Who founded the Muslim brotherhood in 1918?

A

Hassan al-Banna

76
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Who wrote the brotherhoods most compelling books in the 1960 and ‘60?

A

Sayyid Qutb

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