URI PSC 116 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2023/2024
What is International Politics? - ANSWER-The relations between different actors in the world, the characteristics of those relations, and their consequences.
Example of IR in Daily life - ANSWER-Iran vs. Saudi Arabia - Gas prices
Task of P...
What is International Politics? - ANSWER-The relations between different actors in the world, the
characteristics of those relations, and their consequences.
Example of IR in Daily life - ANSWER-Iran vs. Saudi Arabia - Gas prices
Task of Political Science - ANSWER-Offer explanations of patterns in behavior and evaluate explanations.
What is the General Model of Political Science? - ANSWER--Start with a clearly defined questions
-Identify possible answers
-Predict observed patterns for each explanation
-Define and measure the key factors
-Choose research method and collect evidence
-Evaluate findings
State - ANSWER-A territorial entity controlled by a government inhabited by a population.
- Exercises sovereignty over its territory
Nation - ANSWER-Groups of people who share a sense of national identity.
Nation-State - ANSWER-States that consist of one predominant nation.
Substate Actors - ANSWER-Groups and interests within states that influence the state's foreign policy.
(Interest Groups)
, Transnational Actors - ANSWER-Actors that operate below the state level and across state borders.
(Multination Corporations, Nongovernmental Organizations, International Terrorist Networks)
International Governmental Organizations - ANSWER-World Bank, U.N, WTO, NATO
IR in ancient times was local because... - ANSWER-Lack of technology and communication made it hard
for interactions beyond a small radius
Earliest example of International Politics - ANSWER-Greek city-states
Thucydides - ANSWER-Wrote "History of Peloponnesian War"
First attempt at general understanding of International Politics
Thucydides Theory - ANSWER--War and peace between states depend on distribution of power
-International politics is beyond morality
-"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
Feudalism - ANSWER-Political, economic, and social system in which land is the source of power
Catholic Church (Feudal Europe) - ANSWER-Served as an overarching authority.
-Kings subordinate to pope
-Pope settled disputes
-Pope sanctioned conflict
Most significant political development of early modern European history - ANSWER-Reformation (1517)
Westphalian System - ANSWER-Thirty Years war (1618-1648): Series of declared and undeclared political
and religious wars
-Really bad war - 5 out of every 6 villages disappeared
-Political: Habsburg Holy Roman Empire vs. Proto-States
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