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GIST Final Exam
- weapons of mass destruction
- nuclear, chemical, biological weapons
- Deterrence: inhibition of
first strike nuclear attack
by effective retaliatory or
second-strike capability
- terrorism
- threat or use of violence
to change an existing
political order
- narco-terrorism
- alliance of drug traffickers &
antigovernment revolutionaries,
used in reference to political
violence in Colombia
- Blends political ideology of the
FARC with financial interests of
drug lords
- EUROPE
- historical definition: roman empire
brought judeo-christian tradition in
first millennium CE, Renaissance in
Italy, Reformation in Germany,
Enlightenment, Spanish Monarchy in
1492=New World
- geographic definition: extends from tip of
Norway to Gibraltar in SW and Bosporus in
the E, and Iceland in Atlantic to Ural
Mountains in central Russia
- political definition:
divided into 2 camps
(NATO and Warsaw)
- NATO: Western European countries
with democratic govs, capitalism,
and military alliance with US/Canada
- Warsaw Pact (1955): formed by
Soviet Union's satellite
states in Eastern Europe
- Yugoslavia unaligned
despite communist
- economic definition:
synonymous with
membership in the
EU
- cultural definition: cultural
influences from Mediterranean
area, ancient civilizations of
Egypt, Palestine, Greece, and
Rome
- Christian; large Jewish population until
Holocaust; Balkan Slavs are orthodox,
Slavic/Hungarian Roman Catholics;
Protestantism in norther/eastern Germany,
England and Scandinavia
- European Social Democracy
- combines free
market econ w/
social benefits and
gov regulation
- EU countries provide: universal healthcare,
generous unemployment and pension benefits,
nearly free higher education, and subsidized
election campaigns, some national govs own
airlines, railways, and other major industries
- European Independence Movements
- Catalonia seeks
sovereignty from Spain
- Basque terror group Euskadi
Ta Askatasuna (ETA) has
sought independence of the
northern Basque region from
Spain
- Irish Republican Army (IRA)
fought for end of British rule
in N. Ireland and unification
of Republic of Ireland
- World Bank
- loans for econ dev
- IMF
- keeps
currencies
stable
- General Agreement on
Tariffs (GATT)
- provides framework for
reducing barriers to
create freer trade
between states
- turned into WTO
- Arbitrating international
trade disputes and further
lowering trade barriers
- Marshall Plan
- US financial aid
program - $13
billion
- Helped
jump-start
western
european
countries after
WWII
- Economic recovery
ended in 1950s and
ended Communist
movement threat
- First step toward
Western
European
economic
integration
- US saw econ cooperation with W.
Europe as a way to create a
community of free-market
economies and liberal democracies
as a counterweight to Soviets
- ASIA
- Newly Industrialized Countries
- Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and
South Korea
- Models of State Formation
- Japan: democratic, conservative
- China: communist
- freedoms, human rights remain an issue
- Social Issues
- level of population growth, urbanization
- Central Asia
- landlocked, emerged from Soviet control
after the breakup of Soviet Union in 1991
- Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
and Tajikistan
- Most of the people
are Turkic, relatives
of the modern Turks
in Turkey