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| transnational advocacy network TAN |
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| a set of individuals and nongovernmental organizations acting in pursuit of normative objective |
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| nongovenrmental organizations NGO |
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| private orgainzations not directly affiliated with national governments and usually focusing on social, economic, and political change in a country or region |
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| standards of behavior for actors with a given identity; norms define what actions are "right" or appropriate under particular circumstances |
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| a three stage model of how norms diffuse within a population and achieve a "taken for granted" status |
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| a process through which NGOs in one state are able to activate transnational linkages to bring pressure from other states on their own governments |
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| the use or threatened use of violence "against noncombatant targets" by individuals or nonstate groups for political ends |
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| actors whose interests are not widely shared by others; individuals or groups that are politically weak relative to the demands they make |
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| a strategy that induces policy change by imposing or threatening to impose costs, usually pain or other harm, on the target |
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| a strategy of terrorist attacks intended to provoke the target government into making a disproportionate response that alienates moderates in the terrorists' home society or in other sympathetic audiences |
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| a strategy of terrorist attacks intended to sabotage a prospective peace between the target and moderate leadership from the terrorists' home society |
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| a strategy of terrorist attacks designed to demonstrate a capability for leadership and commitment relative to another, similar terrorist group |
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