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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSQUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS
A set of relationships among the world's states, structured according to certain rules and patterns of
interaction... - international system
Total amount of annual economic activity - Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Types of nonstate actors: - intergovernmental organizations (IGO)
nongovernmental organizations (NGO)
multinational corporations
etc.
Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO) - Members are national governments. Fulfill many
functions. Example is UN.
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) - Members are private organization.
Multinational Corporations - Companies that span multiple countries, do not correspond with a
state's interest, in it for their business.
Levels of Analysis: - Global
Interstate
Domestic
Individual
Individual Level - Perceptions, choices, and actions of individual human beings.
,Domestic Level - Concerns the aggregations of individuals within states that influence state
actions in the international arena.
Interstate Level: - Concerns the influence of the international system upon outcomes, focuses on
interactions of states themselves.
Global Level: - Composed of all three levels.
Globalization: - Encompasses many trends, like expanded international trade,
telecommunications, monetary coordination, multinational corporations... etc. It is the widening,
deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary
social life.
North-South Gap - Gap between relatively rich countries of the North and relatively poor countries
of the South. North contains 20 percent of population globally but 60 percent of goods and services.
Munich Agreement - 1938-France and Britain agreed to this which allowed Germany to
occupy part of Czechoslovakia.
Containment Policy - 1940s-US sought to halt Soviet expansion in the military, politics,
ideology, and economy
Marshall Plan - US financial aid to rebuild European economics
Summit Meeting - First meeting of Cold War negotiations in Geneva 1955
Proxy Wars - During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed,
trained, and financed the combatants
Realism - School of thought that explains IR in terms of power. Power politics.
Idealism - Emphasizes international law, morality, and international organizations, rather than
power alone, as key to IR. (Look out how world OUGHT to be than how it is actually IS)
, Thomas Hobbes - Free for all that exists when government is absent, since people seek own self-
interests. His theory is called the STATE OF NATURE or STATE OF WAR. Now called LAW OF EH
JUNGLE.
Military action carried out to gain some objective short of the surrender and occupation of the enemy
is 1. _____ war, whereas war between factions within a state trying to create, or prevent, a
new government for the entire state or some part of it is 2. _____. - 1. Limited
2. Civil
Self-determination is characterized by all of the following: - able 1. Members of a nation should be
to forma state and exercise sovereignty over their affairs.
2. Often conflicts with territorial integrity.
3. It is often achieved by violence.
The tendency to see one's own group in favorable terms and other groups in unfavorable terms is
referred to as: - ethnocentrism
According to the "clash of civilizations" thesis proposed by Samuel Huntington, - international
conflicts in the coming years will take place between the world's major cultural groupings.
The following are tangible interests over which a conflict may occur: 1. Control of national
- governments.
2. Drug trafficking.
3. Natural resources.
Since WWII, an international norm has developed against attempting to alter borders by
- force.
The theory of _____ ______ connects economic competition with security concerns. lateral
- pressure
Where the counter-insurgent differs from other actors within a conflict ecosystem, as pointed out in
"Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency," is largely a - matter of intent.
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