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Question 1

Social Facts

Answer 1

facts that are not the result of physical laws or personal preferences but communal beliefs.

Question 2

Nuclear Taboo

Answer 2

informal constraints, that cause widely-observed prohibition made up of moral, political, bureaucratic, military, practical, and diplomatic hurdles and inhibitions regarding being the first state to fire a nuclear weapon.

Question 3

Perceptions

Answer 3

mutual images held by actors, affecting their mutual

expectations about the Other’s behavior and guiding the interpretation of the Other’s actions

Question 4

2008 Financial Crisis

Answer 4

The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally

Question 5

G20

Answer 5

an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies

Question 6

Sanctions

Answer 6

measures taken by a nation to coerce another to conform to an international agreement or norms of conduct, typically in the form of restrictions on trade or on participation in official sporting events.

Question 7

smart sanctions

Answer 7

selective penalties devised to put pressure on specific groups and avoid the unintended suffering caused by general embargoes

Question 8

Deterrence

Answer 8

a strategy intended to dissuade an adversary from taking an action not yet started, or to prevent them from doing something that another state desires.

Question 9

brinkmanship

Answer 9

the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict

Question 10

Commitment mechanisms

Answer 10

allow you to commit yourself, by making it more costly to refrain from implementing threat than to deliver on it.