PSC 116G Exam 1 URI Questions & Answers 2023/2024
International Politics - ANSWER-Relationship between different world actors, their characteristics and their consequences (how it effects everyday life)
The Mercator Projection - ANSWER-Map making US/Europe large, Africa/South America small
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International Politics - ANSWER-Relationship between different world actors, their characteristics and
their consequences (how it effects everyday life)
The Mercator Projection - ANSWER-Map making US/Europe large, Africa/South America small
Peter's Projection - ANSWER-Accurately depicts proportion of continents globally
State - ANSWER-territorial entity controlled by government and inhabited by population, has sovereignty
over a territory, gets power by being recognized by other states.
Nation - ANSWER-groups of people who share a sense of national identity, doesn't control government
or state (ex. Tibet, Kurds)
Nation-state - ANSWER-states that consist of one predominant nation, there are also multicultural states
that have more than one nation (ex. Iraq: Sunni, Shiite, Kurds)
Substate actors - ANSWER-groups or interests within a state that influences states foreign policy (ex.
Interest groups)
Transnational actors - ANSWER-operate across borders; multinational corporations (MNCs), non-
governmental organizations (NGOs), churches, international terrorist networks.
International government organizations (IGOs) - ANSWER-World Bank, UN, NATO
Empire - ANSWER-large districts of control (one or multiple regions/people under control), run
simultaneously with little contact, under single authority
Significance: ruled for thousands of years unbothered, local politics not global, can't repeat history
, City-state - ANSWER-a state that centers a single city, not a large territory, Greek city-states were not part
of an empire (only exception)
Significance: local politics
"History of the Peloponnesian War" - ANSWER-written by Thucydides, it addressed the war between
Athens and Sparta (431-404 B.C.),
Significance: First attempt to understand international politics
Thucydides - ANSWER-argued that justice has no place in international politics, war and peace
dependent on distribution of power, and that international politics are beyond morality; wrote "History
of the Peloponnesian War", Athenian general.
Significance: helped to establish the realist theory (that nation-states are motivated by national
interests)
Feudalism - ANSWER-political, economic and social system equating land to a source of
power(legal/political freedom is owed to multiple authorities [nobles, emperors, Pope], not to one
because of overlapping territories)
Significance: medieval government that predated the nation-state (when feudalism ended, the merchant
class rose)
Reformation - ANSWER-1517 "political" development of early modern European history, Martin Luther
nailed 95 theses to the door of the Church, part of transition from feudal Europe
Significance: Catholic Church reformed, break from the Catholic Church to form Lutheranism,
transitioned from feudalism
Renaissance - ANSWER-"rebirth", return to Greco-Roman antiquity; 14th century Italy to 17th century
medieval to modern transition, classical influence on art
Significance: developed modern science, transition from feudalism
Law of War - ANSWER-doctrine addressing when entering was is allowed and what means of conducting
war are/aren't allowed
Significance: illustrates communication between different states,
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