Vocabulary 6

Question 1

Diasporas

Answer 1

The migration of religious or ethnic groups to foreign lands despite their continued affiliation with the land and customs of their origin

Question 2

Ethnopolitical group

Answer 2

People whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship ties

Question 3

Indigenous peoples

Answer 3

The native ethnic and cultural inhabitant populations within countries ruled by a government controlled by others, referred to as the “Fourth World”

Question 4

Information warfare

Answer 4

Attacks on an adversary’s telecommunications and computer networks to degrade the technological systems vital to its defense and economic well-being

Question 5

Irredentism

Answer 5

Efforts by an ethnonational or religious group to regain control of territory by force so that existing state boundaries will no longer separate the group

Question 6

Multinational corporations (MNCs)

Answer 6

Business enterprises headquartered in one state that invest and operate extensively in other states

Question 7

Secession

Answer 7

The attempt by a religious or ethnic minority to break away from an internationally recognized state

Question 8

State-sponsored terrorism

Answer 8

Formal assistance, training, and arming of foreign terrorists by a state in order to achieve foreign policy goals

Question 9

Strategic corporate alliances

Answer 9

Cooperation between multinational corporations and foreign companies in the same industry, driven by the movement of MNC manufacturing overseas

Question 10

Terrorism

Answer 10

The premeditated use or threat of violence perpetrated against noncombatants, usually intended to induce fear in a wider audience

Question 11

Transnational banks (TNBs)

Answer 11

The world’s top banking firms, whose financial activities are concentrated in transactions that cross state borders

Question 12

Extreme militant religious movements (6)

Answer 12

1. an existing government authority as corrupt and illegitimate because it is secular
2. They attack the inability of government to address the domestic ills of the society
3. They believe that government & all its domestic & foreign activities must be in the hands of believers
4. They are universalists: Your view only
5. They are exclusionists: Exclude all other views but yours
6. They are militant:

Question 13

Militant religious movements tend to stimulate 5 specific types of international activities

Answer 13

Diasporas
Irredentism  
Migration
Secession
International terrorism

Question 14

Types of war

Answer 14

Hegemonic war: war over control of the entire world order
Total war: warfare by one state waged to conquer and occupy another state (US & Iraq)
Limited war: goal of military action carried out to gain some objective (US driving out the Iraqis out of Kuwait)
Guerilla war: warfare without a front line (irregular forces often hidden or protected by civilians; indirectly harassing in punishing the enemy)

Question 15

Interstate war

Answer 15

Sustained armed conflict between two or more sovereign states

Question 16

Civil War

Answer 16

Armed conflict with in a country between the central government and one more insurgent groups, sometimes referred to as internal war

Question 17

Trends in armed conflict since the end of the cold war

Answer 17

1. Countries engaged in interstate wars has declined.
2. “Long peace” since 1945 record time where no wars occurred between most powerful countries.
3. Most armed conflicts occur in G.S. countries home to highest # states, most population, least income, least stable govt’s
4. Civil war > interstate war risk of relapsing

Question 18

Socialization

Answer 18

Process: people learn the beliefs, values, and behaviors that are acceptable in a given society.

Question 19

Clash of civilizations (Samuel Huntington) divided civilizations

Answer 19

Western, Slavic- Orthodox, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, Japanese, Latin American, and African.

Question 20

Capitalism responsible for war (Marxist theory)

Answer 20

The need for capitalist states to export surplus capital spurs military efforts to capture and protect foreign markets. End war must end capitalism.