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POL test 2 Flashcards

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Woodrow Wilson

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Proposed “Making the world safe for democracy” as the war goal of WWI

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Atlantic charter

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Policy statement issued in early WWII that defined Allied goals for the post war world

Contained the four freedoms (four freedoms that everyone in the wowrld should enjoy) FDR

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Commission chair for the UN commission of human rights

Drafted and secured adoption of the Universal declaration of human rights

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Soft enforcement in promoting human rights examples and organizations

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Conducting inquiries and exposing violations

UNICEF, world health organization

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Hard enforcement in promoting human rights

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Sanctions (economic, diplomatic, cultural)

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When was military force used for human rights

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Kosovo

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Genocide definition and post war example

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deliberate killing of a specific group of people

Rwanda (1994)

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International crime court in the Hague

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Created in 2002 to punish individuals for crimes against humanity

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British government

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Number of representatives elected to congress equals the number of people who votes. Not winner takes all

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US governement

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Winner takes all

Single member districts

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conditions that favor democracy

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  • Culture of tolerance, commerce, acceeptance of majority values
  • Toleration of ethnic, religious plurality
  • Economic development, prosperity (free market economy, capitalism)
  • Sizable middle class
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features of a democracy

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  • Political parties
  • Interest groups
  • Civil society
  • Global civil society
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Democratic peace theory

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Functional democracies do not go to war with eachother

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Countries where the US successfully promoted democracy

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West Germany
Italy
Japan

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Countries where the US failed to promote democracy

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South Vietnam

Latin America

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Obama administration approach to promoting democracy

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More cautious to promoting democracy via US intervention

17
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Causes of the Arab spring

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began as popular protests against autocratic regimes

Pro-democracy and Pro-western individualism with a strong Islamic role

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Results of the Arab spring

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Tunisia: Overthrow of a longtime president (democratic transition)
Egypt: Overthrow of the Mubarak regime (democratically elected a new president)

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Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia

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  • Political dissidents and human rights activists are arrested for their peaceful protests
  • Discrimination against women and minorities
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Discrimination against women in Saudi Arabia

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  • Women must always have a male guardian
  • Women cant expose parts of their body
  • Cannot marry without permission
  • Not allowed to drive
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Human rights abuses in Cuba

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  • Repression of political criticism through beatings, public acts of shaming, termination of employment
  • unfair trials and long imprisonment
  • limits on freedom of expression (assembly, freedom of the press)
22
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US relations with Saudi Arabia. Why is it hard to fight for human rights there

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Major allie of the US in the middle east
We need their oil
Cannot sanction them because without them we would not have the oil that we need
Soft enforcement: collecting inquiries and exposing violations

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US relations with Cuba. Why is it difficult to prevent human rights abuses there

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The US sanctioned Cuba economically in the 1960s and only agreed to lift this embargo if Cuba became a democracy and stopped their human rights abuses: hard enforcement
This has not been working so the US has removed the sanctions to try a different approach (difficult because the sanctions arent working)

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Origins of human rights

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Stoics- Cicero (how to perfect the imperfections of human nature)
Magna Carta
WWII FDR Four Freedoms
Holocaust

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