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- broad-based parties that seek to maximize their vote count by appealing to a diversity of groups
- catch-all parties
- narrowly representative parties
- particularistic parties
- man to manage post-Saddam Iraq
- Paul Bremer
- a shiite cleric against Sistani and America
- Muqtada al-Sadr
- this leader urged shiites to operate with the coalition
- Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani
- Whittled down the National Congress, a secular shitte, contacts provided false info about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction
- Ahmad Chalabi
- Saddam's political party, brought down Iraq's king in 1958
- Ba'ath Party
- a greater collaboration among the Arabs of the Middle East against foreign domination
- Pan-Arabism
- Afghanistan's elected president, elected in 2004
- Hamid Karzai
- as a military-political umbrella organization created by the Islamic State of Afghanistan in 1996. The organization united various Afghan groups fighting against each other to fight the Taliban instead.
- Northern Alliance
- an Afghani institution that might serve as an incubator of state legitimacy pashtun village council Grand Council
- Loya Jirga
- from the most conservative Islamic sector leader of the Taliban
- Mullah Omar
- several groups that countered the Soviet attack osama bin ladin was a member of this group
- mujahedin
- divides the region's Pashtun population, with some Pashtuns living in Afghanistan and others in what is now Pakistan
- MacMahon line
- British and Russian attempts to dominate central Asia and the passages to India
- the Great Game
- South African security force members would receive amnesty for any human rights abuses they may have committed, provided that they supplied all the details on any incidents of abuse.
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Mandela's successor
- Mbeki
- ANC, SACP, COSATU all coming together, ANC basically paying off political opponents.
- Tripartheid Alliance
- Elected by the white South Africans as President announced on Feb. 2, 1990, that he would release Mandela and other political prisoners lifted the bans on the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations promised to negotiate a fully inclusive democrac
- De Klerk
- the organizational arm of the anti-apartheid movement
- Africa National Congress (ANC)
- youths set this country aflame, and widespread unrest drew more outside attention to the tragic oppression of the country's majority black population
- Soweto
- British control of the entire territory of southern Africa was secured (1899-1902)
- Boer War
- An african tribe settled in the east and south, led by King Shaka
- Zulu
- and Afrikaner commando leader of the Zulus, defeated in the battle of Blood River
- King Shaka
- "separateness" in Afrikaans
- Apartheid
- the descendants of Dutch and French settlers of southern Africa
- Afrikaners
- a system in which raw ower occupies the pursuits of political leaders and factions, and constitutional rules are manipulated for individual gain
- praetorianism
- the 2nd President of Nigeria's Fourth Republic
- Yar' Adua
- tried to restore democracy in the late 1970's first leader of the Fourth Republic the one leader who could lead Nigeria out of its deep crisis
- Obasanjo
- ruled Nigeria with an iron fist, executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists who had sought to raise international attention to the plight of an ethnic group in the southeast
- Abacha
- Nigerian leader who was one of Nigeria's most dictatorial and despised military leaders
- Babangida
- the Eastern region of Nigeria proclaimed independence, starting a civil war
- Republic of Biafra
- in exchange for the right to exercise its hegemony over the state and the population, the dominant party provides benefits to the country's main ethnic or religious groups
- Hegemonic Exchange
- these men articulated philosophies of independence, self-reliance, and economic development for African colonies
- Kenyatta, Nkrumah
- the use of state offices as "prebends" for creating wealth and gain for individuals and their ethnic brethren
- prebendalism
- gulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
- 1884 Berlin Conference
- presidential-parliamentary system, involves a mixture of presidential authority, a prime minister responsible to the Parliament, and a weak but important legislature
- France's Fifth Republic
- a parliamentary system with a ceremonial presidency and a bicameral legislature
- France's Fourth Republic
- What is Liberalism?
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liberal form of government - democracy and human rights
classical liberalism
new liberalism
liberalism, conservatis and Americanism -
Key Liberal Thinkers -
Hugo Grotius
John Locke
Adam Smith
Immanuel Kant
Woodrow Wilson - Basic Tenets of Liberalims
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Human nature is basically good
States are pluralist actors
Other key actors: IGO, NGO, MNCs
Role if International Law
International politics is a variable sum game
Cooperation is possible - Democratic Peace Theory - an application of liberalism
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Immanuel Kant
Democracies do not go to war with other democracies - Qualities of a Liberal democracy
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*Elected officials
*free and fair elections
*inclusive suffrage
*right to run for office
*freedom of expression
*alternative information
*associational autonomy - Necessary Conditions for Liberal Democracy
- The logic of Equality (Dahl 1998, 1989(
- Favorable Conditions for Democracy
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Economic development
*Political leaders committed to the promotion of democracy
*A politically independent - merit based bureaucracy
*A vibrant civil society capable of imposing checks on the state - Freedom House Index
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htt://www.freedomhouse.org
the democratic standstill -
3 components of the Democratic Peace -
Normative explanation
institutional explanation
Economic explanation - Strongly supported emplirically
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*Russett: "one of the strongest nontrivial or nontautological statements that can be made about international relations
*Levy - as close as anything we have to an empiral law in international relations
*One scholar: the Democratic Peac Theory is an empirical law