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Authors: Philip Bobbitt
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1996):
international treaty banning underground and atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons; signed by President Clinton, but never ratified by U.S. Senate,
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condottiere
(pl.
condottieri
): leader of a mercenary force,
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,
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,
190 – 1
,
836
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE),
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,
431
,
446
,
455
,
621
,
635
,
877
Congress of Vienna: reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars,
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,
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,
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170
,
172
,
175 – 6
,
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344
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conscription (the drafting of soldiers),
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,
100
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182
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304
,
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,
347
,
538
,
545
,
569
,
670
,
825
constitutional order: historic categorization of the state;
determined by its unique basis for legitimacy,
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16
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41
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362 – 5
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481 – 3
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541
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564
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594
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609
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613
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633
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638
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,
657
,
660
,
715
,
721
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777
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,
784
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796
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804
,
811
,
813 – 5
,
826
,
852
,
854
,
866
,
873
Contact Group: concert of great powers convened to settle Bosnia-Serbia dispute,
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,
455
,
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containment: U.S. doctrine for defeating communism in the Cold War,
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,
56 – 9
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,
244
,
275 – 7
,
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,
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,
310
,
628
,
653 – 4
,
698
,
802
Corfu Declaration (1917),
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Council of Blood, special Spanish tribunal in the Low Countries during Thirty Years' War,
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Covenant of the League of Nations (1919): the League of Nations charter;
unrati-fied by U.S. Senate,
400
,
408
,
471
covert action:
those actions by a state that are intended to influence the politics and policies of a target state without the hand of the acting state being disclosed,
235
,
318
,
321 – 4
,
903
critical infrastructures: those infrastructures supporting and connecting telecommunications, energy, banking and finance, transportation,
government service without which contemporary developed states would be unsustainable,
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,
296
,
690
,
725 – 6
,
778
,
782
,
787
,
792 – 4
,
813
,
903
,
905
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962): nuclear confrontation between U.S. and Soviet Union precipitated by presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba,
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,
55
,
57
cuius regio eius religio
:
ruler's religious preference binds his subjects (doctrine of treaties of Augsburg and Westphalia),
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,
120
,
279
,
487 – 8
,
506
,
866
Cyprus,
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D‘Annunzio, Gabriele (1863 – 1938): Italian poet and revolutionary,
37
de Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie (1890 – 1970):
French general and politician;
led Free French in World War II;
French provisional president (1945 – 1946);
prime minister (1958 – 1959);
president (1959 – 1969),
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,
630
,
730
,
871
deterrence: a strategy, often pertaining to nuclear weapons, intended to dissuade an opponent from certain actions through threats,
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,
48 – 9
,
52
,
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,
244
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310
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328 – 9
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,
620
,
680 – 3
,
686
,
689 – 91
,
713
,
726
,
759
,
788
,
812 – 4
,
820 – 1
Diplomatic Revolution of 1748,
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Douhet, Guilio (1869 – 1930): Italian military strategist;
early advocate of military significance of air power,
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Dukakis, Michael,
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Eagleburger, Lawrence Sidney: U.S. diplomat;
deputy secretary of state (1989 – 1992);
secretary of state (1992 – 1993),
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,
445 – 6
,
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Edict of Nantes (1598): recognized minority Protestant rights within Catholic France,
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,
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Emmanuel II, Victor (1820 – 1878): king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1849 – 1861);
king of Italy (1861 – 1878, first modern king of unified Italy),
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England,
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25
,
35
,
78
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81
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83
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94
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368
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385
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390
,
486
,
487
,
497
,
511
,
521
,
546
,
554
,
902
entrepreneurial state: seeks leadership through the production and marketing of collective goods that the world's states want,
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,
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,
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,
292 – 3
;
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epochal war: a war that challenges and ultimately changes the basic constitutional structure of the State, by linking strategic to constitutional innovations,
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10
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22 – 3
,
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109 – 11
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556
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571
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575
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638
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661
,
720 – 1
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778 – 9
,
815
,
820
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826
,
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ethnic cleansing: to expel ethnic groups from a State, through terror or extermination,
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726
,
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,
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euro: common currency proposed for E.U.,
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312
,
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,
703
,
728
,
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,
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European Union (E.U.),
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455
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633
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674
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702 – 3
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,
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,
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,
770
,
776 – 7
,
782
,
815
,
847 – 8
,
851
,
908
extended deterrence: the nuclear threat by which nonhomeland theatres and other interests are protected,
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,
328 – 9
,
620 – 1
,
634
,
689
,
713
,
731
,
744
fascism,
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31
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34
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36 – 9
,
41
,
43
,
215
,
332
,
384
,
571
,
578
,
603 – 5
,
607 – 8
,
610
,
626
,
673
,
675
,
677 – 8
,
698
,
781
Federalist Papers
(1787 – 1788): series of newspaper articles, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay;
the most important document interpreting the U.S. Constitution on the basis of historical argument,
84
,
177
,
515
,
536
,
655
,
661
,
683
Filmer, Sir Robert (d. 1653): English political philosopher associated with absolutism,
121
First Partition of Poland (1772),
138
Fischer, Fritz (1908 – 1999):
demonstrated that the German Imperial Government had planned and deliberately started the First World War and had pursued expansionist aims scarcely differing from the policies of the Third Reich,
26
,
35
,
831 – 3
,
892
Ford, Gerald, (1913- ):
U.S. president (1974 – 1977),
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,
297
,
322
,
627