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PLSC 117 Midterm Review Questions answers latest update
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- PLSC 117
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PLSC 117 Midterm Review Questions answers latest update
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PLSC 117 Midterm Reviewmercantilism - favored mother county over its colonies.
Peace of Westphalia (1648) - key term-soveriegnty
Hegemony - the predominance of one nation-state over another.
Pax Brittanica - British Peace; Britain has international lead.
Gold Standard - money backed by gold from 1870-1914.
League of Nations - not backed by US Congress; placed after WWI
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - united Western European countries,
the US, and Canada under one military block.
Bretton Woods System - negotiated free trade internationally
Warsaw Pact - military block formed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states as
a reaction to NATO.
, cooperation - one side is better off without making others worse off.
bargain - one side is better off at expense of other
Israel did a preemptive strike against ______ in 1967. - Eygpt
brinkmanship - increasing the threat of accidental war
detterence - preserving the status quo with the threat of force.
resolve - a country's willingness to bear the costs of war.
Falkland Islands - Britain vs. Argentina
Kargil War - Pakistan vs. India
COIN - defeat an insurgency by giving civilians a stake in the government.
national interests - attributed to the state itself- usually security and power.
coordination - type of cooperative interaction; no incentive not to comply.
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