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PLSC 14 Final Exam questions with correct answers (8)
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PLSC 14 Final Exam questions withcorrect answers (8)
terrorism - correct answer ✔✔-Premeditated, politically motivated violence against noncombatant
targets by sub-national groups, usually intended to influence an audience
-NOT a military conflict
demonstrative terrorism - correct answer ✔✔-terrorism that's main goal is publicity
-hostage taking, hijacking, announced explosions
-don't want to kill people; just take advantage of the free media
destructive terrorism - correct answer ✔✔- terrorism that's main goal is to coerce a target
-assassination, infrastructure attacks
-makes the govt pay them in order to go away
suicide terrorism - correct answer ✔✔-main goal is to coerce target thru domestic population
-mass murder of "random" victims
structural arguments of terrorism - correct answer ✔✔causes of terrorism lie in the political, cultural,
social, or economic structures of societies
psychological arguments of terrorism - correct answer ✔✔causes of terrorism lie in the mental
disturbances of terrorists
rational arguments of terrorism - correct answer ✔✔terrorists would be political elites who have a
comparative advantage in violence and terror
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) - correct answer ✔✔-defines terrorism as "the threatened or actual
use of illegal forces and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social
goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation
, -collected by the Study of Terrorism And Responses to Terrorism Center (START) at University of
Maryland
asymmetric warfare - correct answer ✔✔armed conflict between actors with highly unequal military
capabilities, such as when terrorists ore rebel groups fight strong states
extremists - correct answer ✔✔-actors whose interests are not widely shared by others
-there actors are politically weak relative to the demands they make
civil war - correct answer ✔✔-an armed conflict that occurs between organized actors within a state and
that meets some minimum threshold for severity
-2 or more groups fighting with the same territory of a single state
-one side is the government
-at least 1000 fatalities
-previous civil war
-poverty
-regime type
-natural resources - correct answer ✔✔factors that make civil war more likely
separatism - correct answer ✔✔the desire to create an independent state or territory carved from an
existing state
irredentism - correct answer ✔✔the desire to detach a region from one country and attach it to another,
usually because of shared ethnic or religious ties
proxy wars - correct answer ✔✔a conflict in which 2 opposing states "fight" by supporting opposite sides
in war, such as the government and rebels in a third state
insurgencies - correct answer ✔✔military strategies in which small, often lightly armed units engage in
hit-and-run attacks against military, government, and civilian targets
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