Final Review

I. Acronym

AI: Amnesty International

APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN: Association of South East Asian Nations
BRI: Belt and Road Initiative
CCP: Chinese Communist Party
COP26: United Nation Climate Change Conference/ Conference of the
Parties
COVID : Coronavirus disease
CPTPP: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific
Partnership
CVID: Complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization
EAS: East Asian Summit
EU: European Union
FVEY: Five Eyes
ICC: International Criminal Court
ICJ: International Court of Justice
IMF: International Monetary Fund
IPEF: Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change
NPT: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons/ Non-
Proliferation Treaty
OPEC: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
PBP: Partnership in the Blue Pacific
UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
WMD – Weapons of Mass Destruction

II. International leaders

Joe Biden: 46th U.S. President

Antony Blinken: United States Secretary of State
Fumio Kishida: Prime Minister of Japan
Giorgia Meloni: Prime Minister of Italy
Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India
Vladimir Putin: President of Russia
Jake Sullivan: National Security Advisor of the United States
Rishi Sunak: Prime Minister of Great Britain
Liz Truss: Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
Joko Widodo: President of Indonesia
 Xi Jinping: General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of
the People's Republic of China
Yoon, Suk-Yeol: President of Korea
Volodymyr Zelensky: President of Ukraine

III. Korean Leaders

Kim Il-sung: President of North Korea from 1948 to 1994, Founder of North
Korea, First leader of North Korea (Grandfather)
Kim Jong-il: Second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011.
(Father)
Kim Jong-un: Supreme Leader of North Korea from 2011 to now. (Son)
Kim Yo-jong: Sister of Kim Jong-un, member of the State Affairs
Commission of North Korea

IV. Membership

Axis of Evil: Cited by George Bush (2002) regarding terrorist states. The
three countries being North Korea, Iran and Iraq
Former Soviet Baltic Republics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
KKTTU Former Soviet Central Asian Republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
AGA
Former Soviet Transcaucasian Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Georgia
BCMMSS Former Yugoslavia Republics: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
Outposts of Tyranny: Cited by Condeleezza Rice (2005) regarding the
BBLINKE
following autocracy in the world: Belarus, Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea,
Zimbabwe
P5+1: UN Security Council's five permanent members; namely China, France,
Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; plus Germany.
QUAD: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue: An informal strategic forum
AIJW
comprising four nations: Australia, India, Japan, United States
Six Party Talk: Find peaceful resolution on the Korean Peninsula: North
Korea, South Korea, Japan, The United States, China, Russia

V. Fill in the Blank

Three Communiques: Shanghai Communique (1972), Normalization

Communique (1979), August 17 Communique (1982)
One Act: (1979) An act to maintain peace, security, and stability in the
Western Pacific and to promote the foreign policy of the United States by
authorizing the continuation of commercial, cultural, and other relations
between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, and for
other purposes.
 VI. Nuclear War

Nuclear deterrence: the threat of using nuclear weapons to stop

an enemy from attacking
Nuclear proliferation: the spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons
technology, or fissile material to countries that do not already possess them.
De-nuclearization: the action of removing nuclear weapons from a palce
Nuclear club: a term used informally in geopolitics for the group of nations
who possess nuclear weapons.
Mutually assured destruction: a military theory that was developed to
deter the use of nuclear weapons.

VII. Pacific (peaceful) Settlement of Dispute

Arbitration: A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator

or arbiter (an impartial third party) in order to resolve a dispute (meditate in a
formal way, use a representative to render the problem)
Gov body Commission of inquiry: one of many bodies available to the government to
(s) inquire into various issues. (Uỷ ban tư vấn – Kinh tế)
Conciliation: the action of mediating between two disputing people or
groups. (meditate in an informal way, make the parties come to an agreement
about the problem at hand.)
place Good office: any third party assistance given to conflicting parties to help
find a solution to their problems.
V Mediation: process of talking to 2 separate people or groups involved in a
disagreement to try to help them to agree or find a solution to their problems.

VIII. Distribution of Power

Unipolarity: a distribution of power in which one state exercises most of the

cultural, economic, and military influence
Bipolarity: a distribution of power in which two states have the majority of
economic, military, and cultural influence internationally or regionally
Multipolarity: a distribution of power in which more than two nation-states
have nearly equal amounts of military, cultural, and economic influence
Hegemonic stability: international system is more likely to remain stable
when a single state is the dominant world power, or hegemon

IX. Paths to Democrac

Liberalization: the removal or loosening of restrictions on economic or

political system.
Democratization: process through which a political regime becomes
democratic
Democratic transition
Democratic consolidation: Process whee new democracy matures,
evidenced by the two alternations of party in power
Democratic Backsliding: the decline in the democratic characteristics of a
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political system, and is the opposite of democratization
Democratic reverse:
Democratic decline
Democratic demise

X. Identity politics: a tendency for people of a particular religion, race,

social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving
away from traditional broad-based party politics. (bản sắc chính trị)

Primordial identity: traditional broad-based party politics. (bản sắc

nguyên thuỷ)
Constructive identity (bản sắc kiến tạo): identity that is actively negotiated
from various cultures in contact and that often creates feelings of a new
multicultural identity.

Instrumental identity (bản sắc cốt yếu): the fundamental factor that makes
identity of a person, nation or community.

XI. Just War: justification of how and why wars are fought.

Justice of war: the circumstances in which wars can be justly fought

Justice in war: the rightness of a war
Discrimination: the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups
based on characteristics such as race, gender, age or sexual orientation
Proportionality: The idea that a punishement for a pảticular crime mút
relate to how serious the crime is
Humanitarian intervention: actions undertaken by an organization or
organizations (usually a state or a coalition of states) that are intended to
alleviate extensive human suffering within the borders of a sovereign state.
Responsibility to protect: a global political commitment to address four
key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes
against humanity.

XII. Massive Killings

Carnage: the violent killing of a large number of people

Ethnic cleansing: the mass expulsion or killing of members of one ethnic or
religious group in an area by those of another.
Extermination: killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.
Genocide: the intentional killing of all of the people of a nation, religion,
or racial group
Holocaust: a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people
killed, especially because of a war or a fire
 Massacre: the killing of a large number of people, esp. people who are
not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves
Pogrom: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular
that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe.

XIII. Word Choice

Acquire, inquire, require set ask need , ,

adaptation, adoption
affect, effect verb nach/obj
,

afflict, inflict obj people pain

: ,

allusion, elusion, illusion refer (fast) escape erromous belief

, ,

announce, denounce
assert, insert
assign, consign, design, resign deliver Smiths to people
assume, presume, resume low level of certainty high level of certainty ,

avenge, revenge, vengeance punish for justice (jail etc) punish for hate (kill ete) desire for revenge
, ,
, ,

awoke, invoke, provoke

bipartisan, non-partisan, partisan / the right thing regardless of the party/do with my party
do what other
parties agree
to do do wants

bunker, hunker
captivate, cultivate
cohabitant, inhabitant > inhabit getter/live reside
-
to or

compensation, dispensation
complemented, supplemented
conceive, deceive, perceive, receive
-
conception, deception, inception, perception
conciliatory, reconciliatory
conspire, inspire
contain, detain, retain
convert, divert, revert, subvert
denounce, renounce
displacement, replacement
eminent, imminent stand out noticably/smiths is about to happen very soon

emigration, immigration, migration out/in

emission, remission dewak for disappearance for concer
endemic, epidemic, pandemic malria/polic and smoking/covin
execution, persecution, prosecution harsh punishment/legal
fertility, infertility
idea, ideal
insurgence, resurgence rebellion/newad of visor (vitality
object, reject
oppression, repression, suppression usis force authority/hold back/put an and
or

oppression, repression, suppression

preeminent, prominent
respected, respective