Geopolitics Flashcards

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Les Antilles

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The West Indies

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Une patrie / une terre natale / originaire de / une capitale

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A homeland / a native land / native of / a capital city

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Conquérir / s’installer / un colon / une colonie / (dé)coloniser / asservir /la traite des esclaves / l’esclavage / affranchir

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To conquer / to settle / a settler / a settlement / to (de)colonize / to enslave / sale trade / slavery / to enfranchise

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L’endettement / l’allègement, l’effacement de la dette /un fardeau / le Tiers-monde

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Indebtedness / debt relief, cancellation/ a burden / the Third World

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La pénurie / sous-alimenté / la malnutrition / la faim / la famine / sévir / mourir de faim / affamé

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Shortage / underfed / malnutrition / hunger / famine / to be rampant / to starve / famished

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Les maladies / la fuite de / un réfugié / un demandeur d’asile demander, accorder l’asile

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Diseases / flight from / a refugee / an asylum seeker/ to seek, grant asylum

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Humanitaire / secourir / soulager / un bénévole / distribuer / des denrées alimentaires / l’aide alimentaire d’urgence / larguer des vivres / collecter des fonds

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Humanitarian / to rescue / to relieve / a volunteer / to distribute / foodstuffs / emergency food aid / to airdrop food supplies /

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Obtenir l’indépendance / l’autonomie

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To obtain independence / autonomy

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Une minorité, un conflit ethnique / la purification ethnique

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An ethnic group, conflict / ethnic cleansing

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Un acteur essentiel / un chef d’Etat

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A major player / a head of state

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Dans le monde globalisé d’aujourd’hui, les télécommunications ont aboli les frontières

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In today’s globalized world, telecommunications have broken down boundaries

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La dépendance excessive à l’égard de…

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Over-reliance on

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Freiner (figuré)

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To hamper

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Une situation désespérée

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A plight

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Un partenaire / un allié / un sommet

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A partner / an ally / a summit

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Une impasse / s’enliser / un compromis / rédiger / stipuler que / ratifier

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A quandary / to be bogged down / a trade-off / to stipulate that / to ratify

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L’interventionnisme

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Interventionism

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L’immunité

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Immunity

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Inaliénable / faire respecter une charte / violer / terroriser / enlever / emprisonner / retenir en captivité / un détenu / torture / massacrer / une tuerie / un génocide

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Unalienable / to uphold a charter / to violate / to terrorize / to kidnap / to imprison / to detain / a detainee / to torture / to slaughter / a mass killing / a genocide

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Un jihadiste / une alerte à la bombe / un attentat terroriste / une bombe à retardement / un engin / viser / frapper une cible / abattre / être impliqué dans / faire sauter / un attentat suicide / bourré d’explosifs / désamorcer / ravagé / les décombres

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A jihadi / a bomb scare / a terrorist attack / a time bomb / a device / to aim at / to hit a target / to gun down / to be involved / to blow up / a suicide attempt / packed with explosives / to defuse / wrecked / the rubble

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Un otage / une prise d’otages / prendre qqn en otage / échanger / traquer qqn / infiltrer

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A hostage / hosting / to take sb hostage / to swap / to track down sb / to penetrate

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Informer / espionner qqn

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To inform / to spy on sb

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Rompre / rétablir les relations diplomatiques

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To break off / rested diplomatic relations

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Promouvoir les droits de l’homme / un militant des droits de l’homme / la violation des droits de l’homme / un crime contre l’humanité

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To further human rights / a human right activist / human right abuses / a crime against humanity

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Bafouer les droits de qqn / une arrestation arbitraire / un procès sommaire

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To trample on sb rights / an arbitrary arrest / a summary trial

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Organiser / perpétrer un attentat terroriste

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To mount / carry out a terrorist attack

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Des attentats aveugles

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Random bombings

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Un preneur d’otages

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A hostage taker

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Renforcer la sécurité (aux frontières) / fouiller les bagages

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To tighten security / to step up border controls / to search luggage

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Par le biais de la négociation

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Through negotiation

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Revendiquer un attentat

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To claim responsibility for an attack

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(In)habité

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(Un)inhabited