PLSI 120 Final Exam Review Question
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international governmental organization - correct answer ✔Organizations in
which governments of different nations cooperate. For example, the UN,
NATO, EU, and the League of Nations
The unitary state as perceived by realist theory - correct answer ✔A unitary
state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is
ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units)
exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.
States are unitary actors and politics stop at the "waters edge".
political pluralism - correct answer ✔a political system in which many diverse
groups have a share of the power
the pluralist state as viewed by liberals - correct answer ✔Pluralism, in
political science, the view that in liberal democracies power is (or should be)
dispersed among a variety of economic and ideological pressure groups and
is not (or should not be) held by a single elite or group of elites. Pluralism
assumes that diversity is beneficial to society and that autonomy should be
enjoyed by disparate functional or cultural groups within a society, including
religious groups, trade unions, professional organizations, and ethnic
minorities.
Who contributed to Realism - correct answer ✔Thucydides, Hobbes,
Machiavelli, Alexander Hamilton
What did Thucydides believe and contribute to realism? - correct answer ✔in
History of the Peloponnesian War one of his main arguments is, that the
strong should rule the weak, as they have the power to do so. He also picks
,up on themes such as the Security Dilemma, the Balance of Power and the
place of justice and morality in international relations.
What did Hobbes believe and contribute to realism? - correct answer
✔Without strict rules to keep people in line, anarchy is the result
Believed in absolute monarchy, which was the solution for humanity
Wrote Leviathon
What did Machiavelli believe and contribute to realism? - correct answer
✔He believed that it was more important to be followed than loved. You can
separate religion and state, and determine morals through created laws.
Wrote The Prince
Main ideas of realism - correct answer ✔Political Realism sees international
relations mainly as a struggle of self-interested, sovereign states that are
involved in a game of power-politics within a permanent state of anarchy. The
international system, according to this school of thought, is a moral- and
value-free environment in which the state is seen as a rational and unitary
actor that finds itself in constant conflict with the other states of the system
due to the lack of an overarching world government. Stemming from their
pessimistic view on human nature, the only way to achieve security in the
international system, according to political realism, is by creating a Balance of
Power among the most powerful states of the system.
Main ideas of interdependence/liberal theory - correct answer ✔Free market
theory, Bretton woods treaties, pluralists, international negotiation and treaties
and laws creates balance, and international organization is needed for one
supreme power
,Who contributed to liberal theory? - correct answer ✔John Locke, Ricardo,
Woodrow Wilson
Main ideas of World Capitalist System - correct answer ✔neo-imperialism is
the basic nature of the world, capitalist world economy, core-periphery
relationship, international law. ore countries focus on higher skill, capital-
intensive production, and the rest of the world focuses on low-skill, labor-
intensive production and extraction of raw materials.For a time, certain
countries become the world hegemon
Who contributed to World Capitalist System? - correct answer ✔Lenin, Marx,
Stalin, Zedong, Minh, Gorbachev
The capitalist state as viewed by socialists - correct answer ✔Socialism is an
economic system where the means of production, such as money and other
forms of capital, are owned by the state or public. Under a socialist system,
everyone works for wealth that is in turn distributed to everyone. In a pure
socialist economy, there is no free market like we see in a capitalist nation.
International Treaty Regime - correct answer ✔An international regime is an
international process and collection of rules. Sometimes, when formally
organized, it can transform into an intergovernmental organization. They are,
however, not actors or non-governmental organizations. Organizations only
regulate and promote regimes.International regimes often form in response to
a need to coordinate behavior among countries around an issue. In the
absence of an overarching regime, for instance, telecommunications between
countries would have to be governed by numerous bilateral agreements,
which would become impossibly complex to administer worldwide.
A collective security action of the United Nations - correct answer ✔
, a peace keeping operation of the United Nations - correct answer ✔Most
have occurred in Africa during Civil Wars or fights for dependence. War in
Darfur (Sudan)
World Trade Organization (WTO) - correct answer ✔a trade organization that
replaced the old General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
European Union (EU) - correct answer ✔the world's largest common market,
composed of 28 European nations
World Bank - correct answer ✔a United Nations agency created to assist
developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
direct foreign investment (DFI) - correct answer ✔any method of increasing
international business that requires a direct investment in foreign operations
portfolio investment - correct answer ✔Investment in a foreign country via
the purchase of stocks (equities), bonds, or other financial instruments.
Portfolio investors do not exercise managerial control of the foreign operation.
Empirical/Explanatory Theory - correct answer ✔Is a result derived from
repeated observations which are verifiable. As its findings are based on
objective, systematic observation and verified through inspection of methods
and results. It seeks to discover laws that are unalterable.
comparative advantage - correct answer ✔The ability of a country to make
and export a good relatively more efficiently than other countries; the basis for
the liberal economic principle that countries benefit from free trade among
nations
