The combination of the inability to defend against nuclear weapons and the fact that these weapons have the potential to destroy entire societies leads to a relationship of __________ among nuclear powers.

Since at least 1990 the United States has sought to increase its level of trade with China in order to reduce the chances of military conflict with them because American leaders believed in the impact of __________ on the probability of war.

The development of new international norms regarding __________ after the end of the Cold War led to a sharp increase in the number and the complexity of United Nations peacekeeping missions.

During the Cold War the United States chose to intervene in Vietnam in part because they feared that the Soviet Union would do so if America didn’t act first. This dynamic is known as __________.

__________ eliminated national immigration quotas in an effort to promote greater racial equality in American immigration policy.

__________ is most often defined by social scientists as the use of violence by non-state groups against non-combatants for political purposes.

President Eisenhower resisted French pleas for American intervention in Vietnam during the battle of _________.

The argument that America can best promote global security by persuading all countries to dispose of their nuclear weapons is known as __________.

During World War II, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met and formulated __________ to set out shared American and British goals for the postwar international system.

The set of global norms that has defined the main international actors and their identities in terms of sovereignty and territoriality is known as __________.