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Glossary of Terms Comprehensive Examinations: Glossary of Selected Terms that IWP Students Should Know Active Measures Concert of Europe Agent of Influence Concession Agrément Conflict Areas Aide Memoire Consul General Alliance Consular Anarchy Containment Annexation Continental Shelf Anschluss Correlation of Forces Apartheid Counterespionage Appeasement Counter-force Capability Arbitrage Counterinsurgency Armistice Counterintelligence Arms Control Counter-value Strategy Asymmetrical Warfare Country Team Autarky Coup d’état Authoritarianism Credentials ANZUS Crimean Evacuation Balance of Payments Critical Infrastructure Balance of Power Crusades/crusaders Battlespace CSCE BBC Cultural Diplomacy Bipolarity Currency Board Bolshevism Current Account (Balance of Payments) Boycott Customs Union Bretton Woods system Cyberwar Buffer Zone Deception / Denial & Deception (D&D) C2, C3I, C4I De Facto recognition Caliphate De Jure recognition Capital Account (Balance of Payments) Démarche Caribbean Sea Democratic Peace, theory of the Carpathian Divide Détente Cartel Deterrence Casus Belli Diplomatic Immunity Caudillo Disinformation Chargé d’affaires Dunkirk Choke Point Dunkirk Evacuation Coalition Warfare Dual-use Technology Cold War EEC (European Economic Community) Collective Security Agreement Embargo Colony Entente Comintern EU (European Union) Common Market Exceptionalism, American Commonwealth Executive Agreement Communiqué Expansionism Communism Extraterritoriality Comparative Advantage Fascism Fifth Column Just War Doctrine Finding Khyber Pass Finlandization Landlocked First Strike Capability Lao Gai Fixed Exchange Rate system Launch on Warning Flexible Response League of Nations Floating exchange rate system Lebensraum Force Majeure Legation Front Organization Legitimacy G-7 and G-8 Limited War GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Linkage Trade) Littoral Geopolitics Mackinder Geosynchronous Orbit MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) Guerrilla Warfare Mahan Gulag Archipelago Mandate Harmony of Interest Manifest Destiny Head of Government Marque Head of State Marshall Plan Heartland Marxism-Leninism Hegemony Mass Organization High Seas Massive Retaliation Holocaust Mercantilism Horn of Africa Messianism Human Rights Militarism ICBM Mineral Deposits Idealism Mirror Imaging Ideological Warfare Misinformation Ideology MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable IMF (International Monetary Fund) Re-entry Vehicle) Imperialism Money Information Operations Most Favored Nation status (Permanent Normal Information Policy Trade Relations) Information Warfare Mountainous Country Integration Multinational Corporation Interdependence Multipolarity International Court of Justice Munich Settlement International Law NAFTA (North-American Free Trade Intervention/Interventionism Agreement) Island Nations Nation Islands of Autonomy Nation-state Isolationism National Socialism (Nazism) Irredentism Nationalism Ius in Bello National Interest (including vital national Ius ad Bellum interests) Jacobinism National Liberation War Jihad NATO Jingoism Natural Law Jointness Near Abroad Jungle Netwar Junta Neutrality 2 NOCs Rule of Law Non-alignment Salami tactics NGO SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) Non-proliferation Treaty Samizdat Non-tariff Barriers Sanctions Nuclear Triad Satellite OAS Satrap OECD SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) OPEC Second Strike Capability Pacifism Security Council Panama Canal Self-determination Peace Singapore Peaceful coexistence SLBM Peg SLOCs Permafrost Social Democracy PNG ( Persona non grata ) Socialism Plains of Panipat Soft Power Political Action Solidarity Movement Political Socialization Sovereignty Political Warfare Soviet Preemption Space Pripet Marshes Space Dominance Proletarian Internationalism Space Power Proliferation Spheres of Influence Propaganda (White, Gray, Black) Spratly Islands Protectionism START (Strategic Arms Reduction Protectorate Talks/Treaty) Proxy warfare Strategic Deception Psychological Warfare, PSYOPS Strategic Warfare Public Affairs Strategy Public Diplomacy Subversion Public Relations Summitry Quisling Suez Canal Quotas Suzerainty Raison d’etat Tactical Deception Rapprochement Tactics Ratification Tariff Realism Territorial jurisdiction Refugee Terrorism Reprisal Third World Reservation Tierra del Fuego Revanchism Totalitarianism Revolutionary Warfare Tranquility of Order ( Tranquillitas Ordinis ) RFE/RL Trans-Siberian Railroad Rights Treaty Rimland Treaty of Rome Rockies Triads Rogue State Trusteeship Rollback UN Charter Roman Roads in the Sinai United Nations Rubicon Utopianism 3 Voice of America Warsaw Pact Waterloo Westphalia, Peace of WMD Wilsonianism World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) Warm Water Port World Island WTO (World Trade Organization) Zionism 4 .
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