POLS 121 FINAL EXAM 2024/2025 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
The international system is more consequential as an explanatory level of analysis
for liberals than for neorealists.
T/F
False
In a discussion about the liberal order, Stewart M. Patrick emphasizes that the U.S.
has undermined Western solidarity, for example by questioning the importance of
NATO
(Neo)realists emphasize that changes in the dynamics at the international system
level will likely stem from
changes in the power relationship among the main actors in the system.
As explained by Graham Allison, the historical record of the past 500 years,
analyzed by the Harvard Belfer Center, shows that war was the result when a rising
power challenged a ruling power that in ___ of 16 cases.
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12
What phenomenon is known as the "Thucydides Trap?"
The likelihood of armed conflict when a rising power challenges the ruling power
When was the international system bipolar?
during the Cold War
What action taken by the Trump administration in 2018 caused European leaders
to respond with a "chorus of opposition?"
the U.S. withdrawal from the JCOPA
In a discussion surrounding the liberal order, which scholar considers the U.S. to
be the "linchpin" of the liberal order?
John Ikenberry
According to a 2016 Pew Research Center, discussed in Chapter 6, ____% of
Chinese feel their country's influence increased in past decade.
75%
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In a discussion on the future of the liberal order, Daalder and Lindsay offer which
strategy to save the liberal order?
U.S. major allies should cooperate to save the liberal order
Neorealist scholars argue that bipolar international systems are
more stable than multipolar systems.
Which current threats to the liberal order can be identified?
a. The rise of non-democratic, authoritarian China
b. The rise of right-wing populism
c. The rise of non-democratic, authoritarian Russia
d. Political fragmentation in the U.S.
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
To what does the term "polarity" refer?
the number of poles or blocs of power in international system
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As discussed by Angela Stent, in the Foreign Affairs article, "The Putin Doctrine,"
Russia was excluded from which international organization after it annexed
Crimea?
The G8
In the PBS Newshour (2017) "Trump Urges More Nationalist View...," which of
President Obama's diplomatic efforts did Trump call one of the 'worst and most
one-sided' deals in US history?
Iran Nuclear deal
In the Foreign Policy article, "The West is Sleepwalking into War in Ukraine,"
which of the following is NOT identified by Stephen Walt as a mistake of US
foreign policy thinking?
a. Iraq and Afghanistan would be transformed into stable liberal democracies
b. China would demonstrate the adoption of a robust set of liberal values
c. NATO should be maintained as a collective security alliance
d. NATO could be expanded as far as it wanted without backlash
NATO should be maintained as a collective security alliance
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