Applied English for International Politics
Review of Vocabulary from Professor Chamber's Class, Thursday, September 19,
2002
Quiz on Monday!
Make the best matches of definitions, examples and completion of the idea. Pay attention to grammar.
| ____ 1. | event data analysis | a | politics inside a country that has little or nothing to do with other countries |
| ____ 2. | Japan's foreign policy nowadays | b | for example, how people think about the role of rice in Japanese culture |
| ____ 3. | authoritarian governments | c | private, nongovernmental groups of people with similar views who try to pressure the government to adopt their views |
| ____ 4. | democracy | d | through elections, citizens choose representatives to make laws |
| ____ 5. | theocratic | e | a kind of government that is governed by religious leaders and religious beliefs |
| ____ 6. | crisis situations | f | change foreign policy very quickly, sometimes overnight (for example, September 11th) |
| ____ 7. | status quo | g | groups of people who make laws |
| ____ 8. | foreign policy | h | how events lead to other events |
| ____ 9. | domestic policy | i | anything that has to do with how a country relates outside the country |
| ____ 10. | Intermestic | j | a Latin phrase that means to keep things the same |
| ____ 11. | political culture | k | society's general long-held fundamental practices and attitudes that are slow to change; how we think about things and how we do things |
| ____ 12. | national belief system | l | concerning both what happens inside a country and outside a country |
| ____ 13. | actors | m | governments, organizations and people who have an influence on systems |
| ____ 14. | political executives | n | the top people in a country |
| ____ 15. | bureaucrats / bureaucracies | o | people who hold permanent government jobs / the administrative structure in which permanent government employees work |
| ____ 16. | legislatures | p | for example, North Korea, Saudi Arabia |
| ____ 17. | interest groups | q | to use economics and diplomacy, not the military |