1. The absence of any authority capable of regulating the conduct of nation-states is referred to as
anarchy.
ANS: T REF: 7 NOT: Conceptual
2. After the Peace of Westphalia, hierarchy, rather than anarchy, became the organizing principle
in world politics.
ANS: F REF: 7 NOT: Conceptual
3. The concept of sovereignty gives a state the right to make, enforce, and adjudicate laws within
their own domains.
ANS: T REF: 7 NOT: Applied
4. The term nation and the term state mean the same thing.
ANS: F REF: 8 NOT: Conceptual
5. The nation is a collection of people who, on the basis of ethnic, linguistic, or cultural affinity,
perceive themselves to be members of the same group.
ANS: T REF: 8 NOT: Conceptual
6. The United Nations is an example of a nonstate actor.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
7. The billiard-ball model of international relations is state-centric.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
8. International relations scholars consider nonstate actors to include all transnationally active
groups other than states.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
9. Schematic reasoning is the tendency for people to deny or rationalize away discrepancies
between their preexisting beliefs and new information.
10. The Peter’s Projection map portrays land areas in correct proportion to one another but distorts
their shapes and positions.
ANS: T REF: 12 NOT: Conceptual
11. The Mercator map projection is the classic Eurocentric view of the world.
ANS: T REF: 12 NOT: Conceptual
12. Most people resist unfamiliar information and ideas that are different from their usual way of
viewing and thinking about world affairs.
ANS: T REF: 13 NOT: Conceptual
13. The systemic level of analysis focuses on the domestic attributes of nation-states, including their
types of government, levels of economic development, and characteristics of their society.
ANS: F REF: 16 NOT: Conceptual
14. International relations scholars refer to the deep, underlying factors that set off a train of world
events as proximate causes.
ANS: F REF: 17 NOT: Applied
15. Containment is the name of the foreign policy the USSR and its allies used to control American
expansion during the Cold War.
ANS: F REF: 20 NOT: Conceptual
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The earliest record of autonomous territorial states comes from
a. Ancient East Asia.
b. Ancient Africa.
c. Ancient Mesopotamia.
d. Modern Europe.
e. None of the above is true.
ANS: C REF: 4 NOT: Factual
2. Which one of these wars was concluded by the Peace of Westphalia?
a. The Seven Year’s War
b. The Thirty Years’ War
c. The One Hundred Years’ War
d. The Napoleonic Wars
e. World War One
3. An independent, territorially defined community in the global system administered by a
sovereign government is a(n)
a. nonstate actor.
b. state.
c. government.
d. cultural group.
e. actor.
ANS: B REF: 8 NOT: Factual
4. Which of the following is considered a nonstate actor?
a. The United Nations
b. The International Monetary Fund
c. The World Trade Organization
d. The Taliban
e. All of the above are considered a nonstate actor.
ANS: E REF: 9 NOT: Applied
5. Nation-states in the international system are being challenged “from above” by
a. regional and global organizations.
b. nongovernmental organizations.
c. militias.
d. individuals.
e. All of the above are true.
ANS: A REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
6. Which of the following is not true of nonstate actors?
a. They possess sovereignty.
b. They include international organizations whose members are states.
c. They include international nongovernmental organizations.
d. They are important actors in world politics.
e. They sometimes carry out independent foreign policies.
ANS: A REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
7. Schematic reasoning helps us make sense of a large amount of information by
a. matching what we see with stereotypes of we have stored in our memory.
b. causing us to reject any information that doesn’t fit with our existing beliefs.
c. helping us to see an adversary the same way the adversary views us.
d. using diagrams to simplify information.
e. compartmentalizing vast amounts of information.
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