Ch 7,8,9 Vocab Flashcards
Apartheid
South Africa system of strict racial segregation from 1948 to 1990s
Anarchic
Lacking government or order
BRIC
Brazil,Russia, India and China, important emerging economies
Clientelism
Distributing funds in exchange for political support
Colonialism
The gaining and exploitation of overseas territories, chiefly by Europeans
Decolonization
The granting of independence to colonies
Direct rule
Colonial administration by European officials that ignore local power structures; practice by France, Belgium, the Netherlands
Divide and rule
Roman and British ruling method of setting subjects against each other
Emerging economies/ Global South/ third world
Large parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Failed state
Collapse of sovereignty, essentially no national government
GDP
Gross domestic product; some total of goods and service is provided in a country in one year; measure of prosperity
Indirect rule
Colonial administration through local powers and leaders; practice by Britain
Pan – Africanism
Movement to unite all of Africa
Partition
Tendency for military coups and rule
Praetorian
Dividing a country along ethnic or religious lines
Raj
The British colonial administration of India
Secularism
Keeping religion separate from governance
Subcontinent
Asia south of Himalayas, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; sometimes called South Africa
Tribalism
Identifying with tribe rather than country
Weak state
One unable to govern effectively; corrupt and crime ridden
Caliphate
Muslim empire
Fatah
Yasser Arafat’s armed party that dominated the PLO
Hamas
Arabic for “zeal”. Armed Palestinian Islamist party, founded in 1987
Hezbollah
Iranian sponsored Lebanese Shaia militia.
Holocaust
Nazi genocide of Jews
Intifada
Arabic for uprising; includes suicide bombings
Islam
Face founded by Mohammed in the seventh century Arabia
Logistics
The supplying of an army
Mandate
League of Nations grant of semi colonial power to Britain and France over former German and Turkish possessions
Muslim
Adherent of Islam, also an adjective
Muslim brotherhood
Original modern Islamic movement founded in Egypt 1928
Nationalism
A peoples sense of identity and unity, often exaggerated and aimed at foreigners
October war
The 1973 Arab – is really war, also called Yom Kippur or random war
Ottoman
Turkish Empire in Balkans and the middle east from 14th-century to World War I
Palestine
H and holy land, part of fertile crescent ordering the Mediterranean, Egypt and Lebanon
Palestinian authority
Quasi-government of Palestine
Pan-
Movement to integrate an entire area, such pan- Arabism or pan – Africanism
PLO
Palestine liberation organization, mainstream resistance party at formally ran PA
Preempt
To strike first on the eve of war
Rejectionist
Those who reject compromise peace
Sinai Campaign
1956 war in Israel took Sinai
Six Day War
The 1967 war in which Israel took Sinai, west bank and Golan Heights
Tiran Strait
Narrow entrance from Red Sea to golf of Aqaba
Two state solution
One Israel and one Palestine living side-by-side in peace
White paper
Major diplomatic policy statement
Zionism
Jewish nationalism focused on gaining in keeping Israel has a Jewish state
