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PLSC 102 EXAM 1- LUC questions wellsolved A+ rated
Defining IR - correct answer ✔✔study that covers the factors and processes the affect of interactions
between state and non-state actors across national boundaries
Conflict to cooperation continuum - correct answer ✔✔range of relationships between states integration
Casual v. normative - correct answer ✔✔asks how things should be (usually have value statement what
is best way... should would), casual asks why
Theory - correct answer ✔✔A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
Scientific Method - correct answer ✔✔A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting
data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
IR compared to history - correct answer ✔✔
IR compared to hard sciences - correct answer ✔✔probablistic rather than deterministic
levels of analysis - correct answer ✔✔simplify interactions so its easier to understand the relationship
between states... individual- state/monadic- interstate/dyadic- system/global
Realism - correct answer ✔✔derived from machiavelli, assumes 1. state dominant 2. interacts in a
system of anarchy, driven by national interests, always looking to gain
Liberalism - correct answer ✔✔many actors, wealth is important as means, optimistic about possibility
for cooperation, economic interdependence, joint democray
, Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔A movement in IR theory that examines how changing international
norms and actors' identities help shape the content of state interests.
State and Non-State Actors - correct answer ✔✔State actors refer to individual operating at the behest
of a legally and internationally recognized government. Non-state actors are organizations or individuals
operating without the approval or support of a state.
Mercantilist Era - correct answer ✔✔states existed in isolation, used military and economic power to
enrich themselves
Peace of Westphalia - correct answer ✔✔the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648
Pax Britannica - correct answer ✔✔"British Peace," a century-long period beginning with Napoleon's
defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and ending with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 during which Britain's
economic and diplomatic influence contributed to economic openness and relative peace.
30 years crisis - correct answer ✔✔tension because of change in power; US, Germany, and Japan are
rising in power- results in WWI
The Cold War - correct answer ✔✔A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations
never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
NATO - correct answer ✔✔North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if
they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
Warsaw Pact - correct answer ✔✔An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European
nations. This was in response to the NATO
Cuban Missile Crisis - correct answer ✔✔The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over
Soviet missiles in Cuba.
Post Cold War - correct answer ✔✔Berlin wall comes donw, communists loosen power in central and
eastern europe
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