Government Study Guide 2

It is a transformation from essential multi state actors to two national actors and their cooperating actors, constituting dominance over two different blocs.

A strategy seeking to relax tensions between adversaries to reduce the possibility of war

To discourage by fear of nuclear weapons by dissuading an adversary from attacking by threatening to retaliate with nuclear weapons.

Where super powers sap their own internal strength through costly imperial pursuits and military spending that weakens their economies in relation to economies of their rivals

A strategy to prevent a great power rival from using force to alter the Balance of Power and increase its sphere of influence

The doctrine that declared that the United States would use military force to protect its interests in the Persian Gulf region

Soviet Union as the focus of evil in the modern world. The doctrine that United Sates will support anti communist insurgents attempting to over throw governments backed by Soviet Union

A condition arising within states or between states when actors use violent means to destroy their opponents or coerce them into submission

A strategy of making concessions to an aggressor state without retaliation in the hope that if satisfied, it will not make additional claims on the territory of neighbors.

The 1974 policy resolution adopted in the United Nations that called for a North-South Dialogue to open the pathway for the less developed countries of the Global South to participate more fully in the making of international economic policy

the capacity to coerce through military might

the capacity to co opt through such intangible factors as the popularity of a state’s values and institutions, as opposed to hard power

intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries.

pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

was a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.[1] It was the result of a determined American effort to avoid involvement in the European alliance system.

In 1905, 9 years before the start of World War 1,Alfred Graf Von Schlieffen devised a plan for the invasion of France through Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg. This became known as the "Schlieffen plan".

a series of agreements between East and West concerning arms control, trade, and human rights signed by thirty-five nations in 1975, which encouraged exchanges and interdependence

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Britain, France, and Russia

• Started June 28, 1914
• Ended November 11, 1918

• Started September 1, 1939
• Ended September 2, 1945

Great Britain, USA, Soviet Union, France

Germany, Italy, Japan

Signed June 28, 1919

• Goals: Global Security
• Failures: the principle of unanimity