Understanding global security - Peter Hough

Glossary
authoritarian non-democratic.
bilateral involving two parties.
bipolar dominated by two sides.
client state a state sponsored by another (to, for example, fight a war).
codify write down in law.
conflate mix together two ideas.
defoliant chemical used to strip leaves from trees and plants.
diplomatic immunity the package of measures which give official state representatives
legal privileges in the country in which they are serving.
diplomatic recognition the process whereby one government acknowledges the
legal existence of another government so permitting them to function as a
sovereign entity in international law.
Eastern Bloc the USSR’s six East European satellite states during the Cold
War: East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.
emerging markets states successfully undergoing economic development.
empirical based on factual evidence (such as data).
endogenous from within (a country).
epidemic localized disease outbreak above the norm.
epidemiological related to the study of disease.
epistemic community transnational group of experts on a given subject.
epistemic consensus broad agreement among an epistemic community.
epistemology how you come to know something. The theory of establishing
knowledge.
ethnocentricism the tendency to consider one’s own nationality as more significant
than or superior to others.
First World collective term for the states of the developed, capitalist world during
the Cold War.
fossil fuels fuels produced from fossilized organic material (e.g. oil, coal and natural
gas).
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