Chapter 5: National Interest & Foreign Policy
1. Economic Prosperity
2. Safety & Security
3. Beliefs & Values
What are the three aspects of national interest?
Calling their opponents names designed to arouse fear and anger.
Playing down their own failures and defeats.
Using words to hide the true meaning of their actions.
Using respected imagery to appeal to values and beliefs.
Appealing to people’s fears when trying to persuade them to support particular actions.
What are propaganda tactics?
War crimes and genocide.
What are crimes against humanity?
What is Kosovo?
1. Reduce its military strength
2. Pay war reparations
3. Give up territory in Europe as well as its colonies,
4. Accept responsibility “for causing all the loss and damage” that had affected the Allies after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A man-made famine that occurred in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, resulting in millions of Ukrainian deaths.
What is Holodomor?
Legacy of Belgian and French colonial rule that involved the mass murdering of the Tutsi minority group, leading to 800,000 deaths.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
Founding member of the Fatah political party, signed the Oslo Accords in 1993 after negotiating for the self-determination of his people.
Who is Yasser Arafat?
Their national interests at this time included...
1. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)
2. Prevention of Terrorism
3. Stability and Security in the Region
4. Oil
What is the War in Iraq?
Social or economic crisis
Emergence of charismatic leaders
National symbols & myths that evoke feelings of superiority
What are the factors that contribute to the development of ultranationalism?
This ideology promotes racism and dehumanization, which sparks segregation and the exclusion of “othered” groups, restricting their movements, and blaming them for societal problems. This ideology can also trigger the occurrence of wide-spread crime or massacring.
What is ultranationalism?
Colonial power withdraws from a colony, allowing the former colony’s people to form a sovereign nation-state.
What is decolonization?
A global conflict involving major powers, characterized by trench warfare, significant loss of life, and the redrawing of national borders, with the Allies ultimately prevailing over the Central Powers.
What is World War I?
One-party military state ruled by military general Tojo Hideki as prime minister under a dictatorship.
What is Japan's government during World War II?
UN sect that investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
What is the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
The USSR dissolved into Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
What are successor states?
A set of principles intended to serve as a basis for a just and lasting peace, addressing the causes of the war and promoting a more stable international order during WWI.
What are Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points?
1. Appeasement
2. War
3. Peacekeeping
What are the responses to ultranationalism?
“I was only seven when the Japanese troops invaded (...), and my family lived at Jishan Village at that time. I saw with my own eyes the (...) army killing many people (...) with bayonets. Both my father and uncle were killed. The house of my family was burnt, and the cattle for plowing was seized away. Many of our neighbours were killed.”
What is the Nanjing Massacre?
Only these countries can join the United Nations and exercise sovereignty under international law.
What are decolonized countries?