Force and Statecraft Terms Flashcards
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Kofi Annan
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- secretary general of the UN from GHANA
- 1997 for 9 years
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soft power
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ability to coerce, force with money etc
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Leonid Brezhnev
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-soviet union; supported US’ opponents in Vietnam; escalated arms race
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Francois de Callieres
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- Louis XIV diplomat
- described how diplomats should be
- patience, not distracted, even temperment, sound judgement
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Jimmy Carter
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-human rights, disarmament, and working with soviets to create stability
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Castlereagh
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- key British diplomat in Congress of Vienna Oct 1814-1815
- helped defeat Napoleon
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Geneva Convention
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-first multilateral treaty to lay foundations for humanitarian law
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Gorbachev
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- recognized the danger of the arms race over that of capitalism
- renounces SU’s use of armed force
- some contribute his efforts to ending the cold war in 1991
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Nikita Khruschev
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-build the Berlin Wall 1961
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Kissinger
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- wanted dentente to also mean an eventual balance of power
- negotiated US’ withdrawal from Vietnam and won Nobel Peace Price in 1973
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Metternich
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-led Austrian delegation at the Congress of Vienna
